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[ILUG] for loops and interpolation

[ILUG] for loops and interpolation

Stephen_Reilly at dell.com Stephen_Reilly at dell.com
Tue Apr 3 18:53:21 IST 2001


>> 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...

Thanks for the reply Kevin, but I'm still seeing the same thing although
this method is a bit closer in that 
find -type f -print0|xargs -0 -n 1 ls -l will work, but using cp won't. e.g.
if I write a script:
echo $1
cp $1 /temp/
and call it in place of function_name above it bombs out as cp thinks the
spaces indicated multiple files. Using cp '"'$1'"' /temp/ or various
combinations thereof isn't working either.

maybe I'm staring at the monitor too hard!
steve




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