Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2009 08:32:47 -0800 From: Mel Flynn <mel.flynn+fbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: find question Message-ID: <200908050832.47299.mel.flynn%2Bfbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net> In-Reply-To: <4ad871310908050833k54f3f3a7v679737941e3fa235@mail.gmail.com> References: <42D44C8E-1E22-426C-A9AA-0FBF2A52188A@socket.net> <200908050712.39131.mel.flynn%2Bfbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net> <4ad871310908050833k54f3f3a7v679737941e3fa235@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wednesday 05 August 2009 07:33:42 Glen Barber wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Mel
>
> Flynn<mel.flynn+fbsd.questions@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.seaman@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 >> $TMPFILE
> done
Not really, simply quote your arguments so that IFS is not in the picture. The
OP had the right the idea by using a pipe+while read.
% echo My Documents|while read LINE; do find "${LINE}" -type f; done
My Documents/foo
--
Mel
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