Re: Finding files with spaces

[John H Darrah]

On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, John Horne wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I have a small script which uses the find command to locate files and then
> does an 'ls -lAd' on them (don't ask why, it's not important). This however
> has failed nicely when it hits files with spaces in them!
> 
> I have as a test:
> 
>    for FNAME in `find /tmp -type f -maxdepth 1 -printf '"%p"\n' `; do
>           ls -l "$FNAME"
>    done
> 

Change it to the following:

    find /tmp -type f -maxdepth 1 -printf '"%p"\n' |
    while read FNAME
    do
           ls -l "$FNAME"
    done



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