Re: [Help-bash] Multiple double quoted expansions

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Wed, 27 Apr 2016, David Niklas 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?

   Quote $i:

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

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