26 Feb
2008
26 Feb
'08
11:19 p.m.
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 01:51:28PM -0800, Benjamin Smith wrote:
Unless I'm terribly mistaken (again?), the only way I've been able to see "loop thru a list of files" work reliably is with "find" using the "-print0" option, in cahoots with xargs.
What is it you're trying to do? You typically only need to use "find" if you want to recursively descend a directory tree. Otherwise simple globs will do the job
for a in * do blah "$a" done
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rgds
Stephen