On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 1:07 AM, fooler mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 6/4/08, Ambrosio Berdijo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> or "find . -type f -print"
>
> you still have to extract the filename from the output above as what
> the original poster wanted to do...

Ludwig wrote:

|  I have a script that needs to get a list of regular files only
(This means excluding
| directories and symbolic links).

So, the find above would be correct... almost.  Ludwig also mentions
that he needs to handle filenames with whitespaces, so instead of a
'-print', a '-print0' would be needed:

$ find /path -type -f -print0 | xargs -0 some-command-to-process-list

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