On 2007-08-14 09:32:44 -0400, Steven R. wrote: > On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 04:03:05PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > > So what's the right way to do this? I hacked one together the other > > day: > > > > IFS=$'\t\n'; for i in `find . -iname \*m4a`; do faad... blah blah blah > > > > and I knew it was a hack because setting $IFS just seems > > bad... possible unintended consquences, but it worked. > > > > I have seen something like the following: > > find | while read FILE; > do echo "$FILE" > done
which is almost as bad, as filenames can have \n characters in them. That's why "find" has -print0... Unfortunately the "read" builtin doesn't seem to support this feature (or anyone knows how to use its -d option to declare \0 as the delimiter?). -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.org/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.org/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Arenaire project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
