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Re: calling script function on output of find

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From dave.gma+news002@googlemail.com.invalid (Dave Gibson)
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Subject Re: calling script function on output of find
Date Tue, 05 Jul 2011 19:17:29 +0100
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John Stumbles <john.stumbles@ntlworld.com> wrote:
> I have
> 
> for f in `find $SOURCE_DIR -type f -size +0`; do 
>    process_file "$f"
> done
> 
> where process_file is a function within the same bash script.
> 
> However if $SOURCE_DIR has spaces in the name 
> e.g. "/foo/bar/space in name"
> the script tries to process_file on parts of the pathname
> i.e.
>  process_file /foo/bar/space 
>  process_file in
>  process_file name
> 
> This seems to be a limitation of the "for f in ..." construct and I 

Captured output (`...`) is subject to word splitting.

> should probably be doing something else - but what?!

find "$SOURCE_DIR" -type f -size +0 |
while IFS= read -r f ; do
  process_file "$f"
done

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calling script function on output of find John Stumbles <john.stumbles@ntlworld.com> - 2011-07-05 10:01 +0000
  Re: calling script function on output of find Joe Makowiec <makowiec@invalid.invalid> - 2011-07-05 10:20 +0000
    Re: calling script function on output of find John Stumbles <john.stumbles@ntlworld.com> - 2011-07-09 12:04 +0000
  Re: calling script function on output of find dave.gma+news002@googlemail.com.invalid (Dave Gibson) - 2011-07-05 19:17 +0100
    Re: calling script function on output of find unruh <unruh@wormhole.physics.ubc.ca> - 2011-07-05 20:01 +0000
      Re: calling script function on output of find John Stumbles <john.stumbles@ntlworld.com> - 2011-07-09 12:21 +0000
        Re: calling script function on output of find Bill Marcum <bill@lat.localnet> - 2011-07-12 19:43 -0400
          Re: calling script function on output of find John Stumbles <john.stumbles@ntlworld.com> - 2011-07-16 00:26 +0000
    Re: calling script function on output of find John Stumbles <john.stumbles@ntlworld.com> - 2011-07-09 12:48 +0000
      Re: calling script function on output of find dave.gma+news002@googlemail.com.invalid (Dave Gibson) - 2011-07-09 19:52 +0100
  Re: calling script function on output of find Chris Davies <chris-usenet@roaima.co.uk> - 2011-07-07 09:37 +0100
    Re: calling script function on output of find John Stumbles <john.stumbles@ntlworld.com> - 2011-07-08 10:02 +0000
      Re: calling script function on output of find Chris Davies <chris-usenet@roaima.co.uk> - 2011-07-08 16:48 +0100
        Re: calling script function on output of find unruh <unruh@wormhole.physics.ubc.ca> - 2011-07-08 17:46 +0000
          Re: calling script function on output of find Chris Davies <chris-usenet@roaima.co.uk> - 2011-07-08 20:56 +0100
            Re: calling script function on output of find unruh <unruh@wormhole.physics.ubc.ca> - 2011-07-08 21:14 +0000
              Re: calling script function on output of find Chris Davies <chris-usenet@roaima.co.uk> - 2011-07-09 11:17 +0100
        Re: calling script function on output of find John Stumbles <john.stumbles@ntlworld.com> - 2011-07-09 12:51 +0000
          Re: calling script function on output of find Chris Davies <chris-usenet@roaima.co.uk> - 2011-07-10 10:45 +0100
            Re: calling script function on output of find John Stumbles <john.stumbles@ntlworld.com> - 2011-07-10 23:14 +0000

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