On Tue, 29 May 2012 14:50:19 +0100 Steven J Long <sl...@rathaus.eclipse.co.uk> wrote:
> Michał Górny wrote:
>
> > + find "${D}" -type f -name '*.la' -print0 | while read -r -d ''
> > f;
> ..
> > + rm -f "${f}" || die
> ..
> > + done
>
> Don't pipe to read like that; it means the final command is in a
> subshell and "die is /not/ guaranteed to work correctly if called
> from a subshell environment."[1]
Didn't we actually change that in the past? I think I'm recalling
something like that...
> More seriously, the script doesn't actually get the correct
> filenames, despite being written to handle any filename.
> eg:
> $ touch $' foo bar \n\t '
> $ while read -r -d '' f; do echo "'$f'"; done < <(find . -type f
> -print0) './ foo bar'
>
> You do it like this:
>
> while read -rd ''; do
> f=$REPLY;
> ..
> done < <(find "$D" -type f -name '*.la' -print0)
Thanks.
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Best regards,
Michał Górny
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