Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2009 11:33:42 -0400 From: Glen Barber <glen.j.barber@gmail.com> To: Mel Flynn <mel.flynn+fbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: find question Message-ID: <4ad871310908050833k54f3f3a7v679737941e3fa235@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200908050712.39131.mel.flynn%2Bfbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net> References: <42D44C8E-1E22-426C-A9AA-0FBF2A52188A@socket.net> <4A79367F.8000003@infracaninophile.co.uk> <4ad871310908050800l1158452xb5949f2a1beee47a@mail.gmail.com> <200908050712.39131.mel.flynn%2Bfbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net>
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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: >> > >> > =A0 =A0for line in $( cat $FILELIST ) ; do >> > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0echo $line >> > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0find $line -type f >> $TMPFILE >> > =A0 =A0done >> > >> > *assuming that none of the directory names in $FILELIST contain spaces= * >> >> =A0 =A0for line in $( cat $FILELIST | sed -e 's/\ //g') ; do >> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0echo $line >> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0find $line -type f >> $TMPFILE >> =A0 =A0done >> >> 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 --=20 Glen Barber
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