bash and strings

[Girish Venkatachalam]

On 21:18:47 Nov 15, Garrett Cooper wrote:
> A better way would be to quote the string variables, i.e.:
> 
> DIR=`/usr/bin/dirname "$path"`
> FILE=`/usr/bin/basename "$path"`
> /bin/mkdir -p "$DIR"
> touch "$FILE"
> 
> Otherwise dirname and basename will choke on non-escaped characters 
> (i.e. spaces), mkdir/touch will make funky directories / files, 
> respectively.
> 
> Just watch out for '$' chars in $path...
> 
> Welcome to the wonderful world of [in]secure shell scripting :).
> 

Thanks buddy. :)

I missed out something obvious.

Ever willing to learn.

regards,
Girish