space problem in files



hi,

i have a file containing a list of entries.

want to do ls on them.

for a in `cat <list.txt>`; do ls $a; done;


now some entries contain spaces.
how do i incorporate space in $a.

quoting $a in "" doesn't help.

are you trying to check whether files in list.txt exists? can you show list.txt?

quote:
originally posted by vibhor_agarwali
list contains name of files:

eg.

a.txt
the hell.txt
etc.

i want to perform some operations on all.

now how do i go about with "the hell.txt"



code:
while read file
do
    echo "$file"
done < list.txt
since some of the filename contain spaces use quotes to do your operation.

okay,

and if i have to take it directly from command substitution:

like:

for a in `find . -type f`; do ......

quote:
originally posted by vibhor_agarwali
okay,

and if i have to take it directly from command substitution:

like:

for a in `find . -type f`; do ......

then ...



code:
find . -type f | while read file
do

great,

i generally do my work with for, not pretty convercent with while.  

any way of doing this for loop.