You'd still fall foul of dodgy file with special characters, surely?
It'd be far better to do find . -name "*.meta" -exec foobar {} \; and
know that you're a) not going to suffer a blow up due to too many files,
and b) know it's not going to get screwed up by someone or something
deciding a space or any other special character that'd need escaped is
in the list.
Paul
On 12/9/2010 7:33 PM, Brad Knowles wrote:
> On Dec 9, 2010, at 5:33 PM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
>
>> Just use the shell:
>>
>> for i in *.meta; do echo "something with $i"; done
> Safer, but I believe that still blows up if there are too many files that
> match the expression.
>
> IMO, it's better to do something like:
>
> cd $directory
> ls -1 | grep '\.meta$'> $tmpfile
>
> And then process the $tmpfile line-by-line, using whatever method you prefer.
>
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