find question

Glen Barber glen.j.barber at gmail.com
Wed Aug 5 15:00:42 UTC 2009


On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 3:36 AM, Matthew
Seaman<m.seaman at 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.

-- 
Glen Barber


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