On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Mel Flynn<mel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net> wrote: > On Wednesday 05 August 2009 07:00:40 Glen Barber wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 3:36 AM, Matthew >> >> Seaman<m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote: >> > Try this as: >> > >> > for line in $( cat $FILELIST ) ; do >> > echo $line >> > find $line -type f >> $TMPFILE >> > done >> > >> > *assuming that none of the directory names in $FILELIST contain spaces* >> >> for line in $( cat $FILELIST | sed -e 's/\ //g') ; do >> echo $line >> find $line -type f >> $TMPFILE >> done >> >> This *should* fix any directories containing spaces. > > And also make find look in non-existing directories.
True, but any script that needs to find directories containing spaces is going to be hack-ish. for line in $( cat $FILELIST | sed -e 's/\ /SPACE/g') ; do echo $line | sed -e 's/SPACE/\ /g' find $line -type f >> $TMPFILE done -- Glen Barber _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
