Re: Bash: for…in-loop fails, what am I doing wrong?

[Steve Flynn]

On 10 January 2013 20:07, Paul Smith <paul at mad-scientist.net> wrote:

> There is only one really foolproof method that I can think of, if you
> want to work entirely in the shell: you need to create a script that
> takes the files to manage on the command line, then invoke find with the
> -exec option passing it your script.

This.

I write a lot of scripts at work (ksh93 on AIX - how I'd like zsh or
even a modern bash!) and after much arsing around trying to make them
idiot-proof, firing them from a "find ... -exec" command has proven to
be the most robust and easiest method of dealing the multitudes of
filenames I come across.


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Steve

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