Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > Angus Leeming writes: > | find foo -name '*.gif' | while read file > | do > | pngfile=`basename "$file" .gif`.png > | convert "$file" "pngfile" > | done
> Hmm... I thought thiw was usually written as a for-loop. > for file in `find foo -name \*.gif` ; do > pngfile=`basename "$file" .gif`.png > convert "$file" "$pngfile" > done Won't work when the returned files have spaces in their names. Try out my prescription in the mail you're replying to :) The problem is that "for" splits the returned list of files using whitespace... Perhaps the bigger problem is that you can overrun the internal array size used by "for" to store the list of returned list of files. google on "useless use of cat" or just go here: http://www.ruhr.de/home/smallo/award.html and read the "dangerous backticks" section. > (and you forgot a '$') Right :) (And restricted the search to the foo directory rather than the original .) -- Angus
