Frank Gevaerts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-12-07 19:58:00 +0100]: > On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 11:47:54AM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > > You are trying to find files in a directory. Therefore I recommend > > you use the 'find' command. > > [..contrived.example...] > > mp3playlist=$(find . -name '*.jpg' -print) > > for mp3 in $mp3playlist; do > > mpg123 $mp3 > > done > > Why not just > find . -name \*.jpg -exec mpg123 {} \; > ? > > Much shorter, and no problems with number of arguments...
I was only proposing the mpg123 as an example. I really don't know what the OP wanted to do with it. You are right that using find's exec and {} avoids the file with spaces problem. But instead I would use this if I wanted to play every file. find . -name '*.jpg' -print0 | xargs -r0 mpg123 > However, be careful with find. If you do not want to search > subdirectories, it is probably not what you want. Not true! Check out the -maxdepth option. This only searches one directory deep. The second only operates on the command line files. find . -name '*.jpg' -maxdepth 1 -print0 | xargs -r0 mpg123 find *.jpg -maxdepth 0 -print0 2>/dev/null | xargs -r0 mpg123 Bob
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