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

[Tony Arnold]

Oops! Should read all the way to the end of your post. Sorry.

Tony.

On 10/01/13 21:03, Paul Smith wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-01-10 at 20:49 +0000, Tony Arnold wrote:
>> Or you could use the -exec option to the find command as follows:
>>
>> find -regextype posix-extended \
>>      -regex '.*/P[A-Z0-9][0-9]{6}\.(jpg|JPG|jpeg)' \
>>      -exec date --reference="{}" '+%Y%m' \;
> 
> Unfortunately this doesn't address the rest of the OP's loop, which was:
> 
>>     # More things to happen here, but this is only a test.
> 
> -exec can only invoke a single command hence cannot replace the OP's
> loop, by itself.
> 
>> What follows -exec is executed once for each file found. The {} is
>> replaced with the file name. Note the command must be terminated by an
>> escaped semi-colon, i.e., \;
> 
> If you read the rest of my response I did suggest basically the same
> thing (write a script and invoke it with find -exec).
> 
> If you have a lot of these kinds of things to do, however, writing
> scripts to handle each situation can get very annoying.
> 

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