find question

Mel Flynn mel.flynn+fbsd.questions at mailing.thruhere.net
Wed Aug 5 01:17:19 UTC 2009


On Tuesday 04 August 2009 17:06:56 Jay Hall wrote:
> I am sure this is something I am doing that is obviously wrong, but I
> cannot figure it out.
>
> I am reading a list of directories from a file, and then listing all
> of the files in the directory to a file.
>
> Here is the code.
>
> #!/usr/local/bin/bash
>          cat ${FILELIST} | while read LINE
>          do
				[ -z "${LINE}" ] && continue
>                  echo ${LINE}
>                  `find ${LINE} -type f >> ${TMPFILE}`
>          done
>
> Here is the output.
> /usr/home/windowsaccess
>
 ^^^^ empty line

-- 
Mel


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