Re: [Help-bash] Multiple double quoted expansions

[Pierre Gaston]

On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 4:26 AM, David Niklas <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hello,
> Today I typed into my terminal (">" changed to "<"):
>
> % for i in *.pcx; do
> <   convert "$i" "$(basename $i .pcx).png";
> < done
>
> This worked well, but all the filenames contained no embedded spaces
> or anything else. So my question is, how would I redo this to make
> it handle nastier filenames?
>
> Thanks, David
>
> quote the $i inside the $( )

"$(basename "$i" .pcx).png";

you can also use parameter expansion:
convert "$i" "${i%pcx}png";

for extra safety you can use:

for i in ./*.pcx

this can avoid trouble with filenames starting with eg -