On Wednesday 05 August 2009 07:33:42 Glen Barber wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Mel
>
> Flynn<[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Wednesday 05 August 2009 07:00:40 Glen Barber wrote:
> >> On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 3:36 AM, Matthew
> >>
> >> Seaman<[email protected]> 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 >> $TMPFILE
> done
Not really, simply quote your arguments so that IFS is not in the picture. The
OP had the right the idea by using a pipe+while read.
% echo My Documents|while read LINE; do find "${LINE}" -type f; done
My Documents/foo
--
Mel
_______________________________________________
[email protected] mailing list
http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions
To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
