In <20100924141439.gn15...@wasteland.homelinux.net>, Jochen Schulz wrote:
>Enrico Weigelt:
>> do_rm() {
>> while read FILE ; do rm -fr $FILE ; done
>> }
>
>That won't work with spaces in filenames. :) "find … -exec" or "find …
>-print0 | xargs -0" are the best ways to do this. Apart from "find …
>-delete" which I regularly forget. :)Actually, that *will* work with spaces in the filenames[1], since the shell built-in read doesn't stop until end of line. There are some other, even less common, characters that can confuse read though: '\', '"', and NL. [1] At least with single space characters. Read might be sensitive to IFS/OFS and merge runs of characters or translate all whitespace to space characters; I'm not looking at the spec right now. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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