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Re: calling script function on output of find

From dave.gma+news002@googlemail.com.invalid (Dave Gibson)
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.misc
Subject Re: calling script function on output of find
Date 2011-07-09 19:52 +0100
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
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John Stumbles <john.stumbles@ntlworld.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 05 Jul 2011 19:17:29 +0100, Dave Gibson wrote:
> 
>> find "$SOURCE_DIR" -type f -size +0 | while IFS= read -r f ; do
>>   process_file "$f"
>> done

> One question: why the -r switch ("Backslash does not act as an escape 
> character") to read?

To ensure that a backslash has the same meaning in read's input as it
does in find's output.

In an empty directory:

  $ touch 'foo\bar'
  $ find . -name 'foo*'
  ./foo\bar
  $ find . -name 'foo*' | { read f ; printf '%s\n' "$f" ; }
  ./foobar
  $ find . -name 'foo*' | { read -r f ; printf '%s\n' "$f" ; }
  ./foo\bar

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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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