Question

I’m trying to write a Bash script to convert a bunch of files.

Assume I have a directory /path/to/my files/ with three text files: a b.txt, c d.txt and e.txt (note the spaces)

I need to be able to call the script like this:

$ ./myscript.sh /path/to/my\ files/*.txt

and then loop through them in bash to process them like this:

dest='/desktop/'
for ARG in $@; do
  /some/other/script $ARG $dest$ARG.new
done

It doesn’t have to work exactly like this, whatever is easiest that will yield similar results

Answer 1

Does this do what you need:

dest='/desktop/'
for ARG in "$@"; do
  /some/other/script "$ARG" "$dest$ARG.new"
done

EDIT: To remove the path on ARG

dest='/desktop/'
for ARG in "$@"; do
  /some/other/script "$ARG" "$dest$(basename "$ARG").new"
done