[SGVLUG] bash "for" with spaces

[Christopher Smith]

That's the point where I want to think about engaging perl, but that said, in the particular case I'd do:

find . -type f -maxdepth 1 -print0 | grep -z -Z -l bar | xargs -0 foo

--Chris

On Apr 19, 2010, at 9:16 PM, "John E. Kreznar" <jek at ininx.com> wrote:

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>>> foo "$f"
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>> Where possible (and it is most often possible), the "find -print0 |
>> xargs -0" idiom works well too.
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> Very nice.  Thanks!  The cases where things seem to get baroque may be
> when the list is the result of a computation.  Example:
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>   for f in $(grep -l bar *) ; do foo $f ; done
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> where again, file names may contain blanks.  As I recall, I've been
> driven to fiddling with the IFS shell parameter.  Very messy.
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> - -- 
> John E. Kreznar jek at ininx.com 9F1148454619A5F08550 705961A47CC541AFEF13
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