Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2009 08:36:31 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Jay Hall <jhall@socket.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: find question Message-ID: <4A79367F.8000003@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <42D44C8E-1E22-426C-A9AA-0FBF2A52188A@socket.net> References: <42D44C8E-1E22-426C-A9AA-0FBF2A52188A@socket.net>
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Jay Hall wrote:
> I am sure this is something I am doing that is obviously wrong, but I
> cannot figure it out.
>=20
> I am reading a list of directories from a file, and then listing all of=
> the files in the directory to a file.
>=20
> Here is the code.
>=20
> #!/usr/local/bin/bash
> cat ${FILELIST} | while read LINE
> do
> echo ${LINE}
> `find ${LINE} -type f >> ${TMPFILE}`
> done
>=20
> Here is the output.
> /usr/home/windowsaccess
>=20
> find: illegal option -- t
> find: illegal option -- y
> find: illegal option -- p
> find: illegal option -- e
> find: f: No such file or directory
>=20
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>=20
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*
This will split the contents of the file based on the current setting of =
$IFS (input field separator, which usually matches any whitespace). You =
can
do some interesting tricks by redefining IFS...
Not sure what you're trying to achieve by the backticks around your find =
line
-- that actually says "take the output of this command and try and run it=
as
a command line" which is probably not what you want.
Cheers,
Matthew
--=20
Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. Flat 3
7 Priory Courtyard
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