On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 08:52:36PM -0500, Try KDE wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to run the following script: > for f in $(find . -name "*.txt"); do cmd1;cmd2;cmd3; done > ,where cmd1, cmd2 and cmd3 are arbiturary commands. The problem is, if > the found file names contain a space , for example "part1 part2.txt" > will be interpreted as "part1" and "part2.txt". I'm thinkin an esacping > tool may be able turn it into "part1\ part2.txt" before passing it to > "for" loop. Any thought?
Does: IFS="^M" && for f in $(find . -name "*.txt"); do cmd1; cmd2; cmd3; done work? (replace ^M with real newline) There's also the trick of: for f in *.txt; do echo "$f" ; done -- "...the plural of anecdote is [not?] data." - attrib. to George Stigler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
