On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 02:18:55PM +0200, Sturla Holm Hansen wrote: > Since I'm kinda new at this I just have to ask what's wrong with a > for-loop.. > To slow?
Depends on what you do in the loop's body. > I have no idea, but I use something like this to recurse down a tree and > do something with every file: > > #!/bin/bash > for i in `find -type f` > do > whatever you wan't to do, just use $i instead of the filename. > done This will not work if any component of a path contains spaces. If this is not the case then there is nothing wrong with this approach, IMHO. Regards Matthias -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
