actually, it appears an issue with space handling is also preventing rwildcard from working
does anyone have a way to obtain a recursive listing of all files underneath a relative path that is robust against spaces (and hopefully apostrophes too)? On 3/27/06, Chris Chiasson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > my bash script is failing me on file names with spaces... so i decided > to use rwildcard > > in my tests, rwildcard seems to be returning file names without their > paths - is there a way to make it prepend the relative path? > > thank you, > > On 3/16/06, John Graham-Cumming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Aditya Kher wrote: > > > Is there any way to use wildcard to *find recursively* under given path > > > e.g. > > > > > > SOURCE = $(wildcard source_dir/*.c) > > > > $(wildcard ...) itself is not recursive, but it's pretty easy to wrap > > about $(wildcard ...) to make it recursive. Here's my rwildcard > > function which works like wildcard but it recursive: > > > > rwildcard = $(foreach d,$(wildcard $1*),$(call > > rwildcard,$d/)$(filter $(subst *,%,$2),$d)) > > > > rwildcard has two parameters: the directory in which to start looking > > for files (this must either be blank for the current directory or end in > > a /); the second parameter is the search specification. > > > > For example to find all .c files in the current directory and > > subdirectories do > > > > $(call rwildcard,,*.c) > > > > To find all .c files in /tmp do > > > > $(call rwildcard,/tmp,*.c) > > > > To find all .c file in a/b/c do > > > > $(call rwildcard,a/b/c,*.c) > > > > rwildcard only handles the * glob and not other more complex patterns. > > The nice thing about rwildcard is that it doesn't depend on a specific > > shell or shell executable function like find. > > > > John. > > -- > > John Graham-Cumming > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Home: http://www.jgc.org/ > > Blog: http://www.jgc.org/blog/ > > > > POPFile: http://getpopfile.org/ > > GNU Make Standard Library: http://gmsl.sf.net/ > > GNU Make Debugger: http://gmd.sf.net/ > > Fast, Parallel Builds: http://www.electric-cloud.com/ > > > > Sign up for my Spam and Anti-spam Newsletter > > at http://www.jgc.org/ > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Help-make mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make > > > > > -- > http://chris.chiasson.name/ > -- http://chris.chiasson.name/ _______________________________________________ Help-make mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make
