my bash script is failing me on file names with spaces... so i decided
to use rwildcard

in my tests, rwildcard seems to be returning file names without their
paths - is there a way to make it prepend the relative path?

thank you,

On 3/16/06, John Graham-Cumming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Aditya Kher wrote:
> > Is there any way to use wildcard to *find recursively* under given path
> > e.g.
> >
> > SOURCE = $(wildcard source_dir/*.c)
>
> $(wildcard ...) itself is not recursive, but it's pretty easy to wrap
> about $(wildcard ...) to make it recursive.  Here's my rwildcard
> function which works like wildcard but it recursive:
>
>      rwildcard = $(foreach d,$(wildcard $1*),$(call
> rwildcard,$d/)$(filter $(subst *,%,$2),$d))
>
> rwildcard has two parameters: the directory in which to start looking
> for files (this must either be blank for the current directory or end in
> a /); the second parameter is the search specification.
>
> For example to find all .c files in the current directory and
> subdirectories do
>
>      $(call rwildcard,,*.c)
>
> To find all .c files in /tmp do
>
>      $(call rwildcard,/tmp,*.c)
>
> To find all .c file in a/b/c do
>
>      $(call rwildcard,a/b/c,*.c)
>
> rwildcard only handles the * glob and not other more complex patterns.
> The nice thing about rwildcard is that it doesn't depend on a specific
> shell or shell executable function like find.
>
> John.
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