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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