[ILUG] for loops and interpolation

[kevin lyda]

On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 10:23:08AM -0500, Stephen_Reilly at dell.com wrote:
> 	I need a hand. Having casually stroked the underbelly of the
*applause*
> solution for several hours I am still lacking an easy way of getting a list
> of files (the names of some of which contain spaces) and passing them one by
> one to a function. So I find myself with a deadline which if I take off my
> earphones I can actually hear approaching. I can get the filelist and put
> nice quotes around it and stuff with:
> FILELIST='"'`find -type f -print "%p" | sed 's%\(.\)\(\./\)%\1\"\"\2%g'`'"'

find -type f -print0|xargs -0 -n 1 function_name

now, function_name would need to be a shell script, but it seems simpler
otherwise...

kevin

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