Hello,
I have a small script which uses the find command to locate files and then
does an 'ls -lAd' on them (don't ask why, it's not important). This however
has failed nicely when it hits files with spaces in them!
I have as a test:
for FNAME in `find /tmp -type f -maxdepth 1 -printf '"%p"\n' `; do
ls -l "$FNAME"
done
This is about as close as I can get to solving the problem but it still
doesn't work correctly. I get the following errors (this is with the '-x'
option set on the shell):
+ find /tmp -type f -maxdepth 1 -printf "%p"\n
+ ls -l "/tmp/acout.a29033"
ls: "/tmp/acout.a29033": No such file or directory
+ ls -l "/tmp/me
ls: "/tmp/me: No such file or directory
+ ls -l and
ls: and: No such file or directory
+ ls -l me"
ls: me": No such file or directory
+ ls -l "/tmp/28786baa"
ls: "/tmp/28786baa": No such file or directory
The /tmp directory has a file called 'me and me' in it. The script uses the
Korn shell, but the same happens under bash. I have tried using '-exec echo'
and xargs but nothing seems to simply list the files regardless of whether
they have spaces in or not.
If anyone has any other ideas I would be grateful,
John.
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