On 4/16/20 11:15 AM, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > > Is there a way to express $fn in a way, so that > do_something get one filename at a time and > whole thing does not is torn apart by some > not so nice filenames? >
What are your constraints... are you using bash, or just any POSIX shell? Can you rely on GNU extensions to find/xargs, etc? Is do_something a shell command or a program? Even with bash, find/xargs tends to fall down if you need to run a series of shell commands on each thing found. The simplest way to handle that is to use "while read..." with the bash-specific null separator to loop through the files one at a time, like in https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/portage.git/tree/bin/install-qa-check.d/90bad-bin-owner If you want it to be portable, on the other hand, I recently wasted several hours on this problem and it's not pretty. Something like, find -name 'whatever' \ -exec sh -c " for f in \"\${@}\"; do do_stuff \"\${f}\" && echo \"\${f}\" done " - {} + will do it.
