-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Al Sparks Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 3:33 PM To: Centos List Subject: [CentOS] Shell Question

So I list out some directories, and I redirect the output to a file called "out".

I do it with: find . ( -type d ! -name . -prune )' > out

I then go into "out" using my favorite editor and remove any directories I don't want to search.

When I do a find `cat out` -name 'something*'

I get an error on any directories with whitespace in them. When I try to place quotes around that name, it doesn't work, nor does putting a backslash in front of the space help.

Any shell experts out there have any ideas? === Al

Unless I am mistaken, you either have to backslash the quotes or use double backslashes to quote the spaces because the shell will strip off one backslash when the value comes out of cat, leaving the spaces unquoted for the find.

Al Sparks wrote:

So I list out some directories, and I redirect the output to a file called "out".

I do it with: find . ( -type d ! -name . -prune )' > out

I then go into "out" using my favorite editor and remove any directories I don't want to search.

When I do a find `cat out` -name 'something*'

I get an error on any directories with whitespace in them. When I try to place quotes around that name, it doesn't work, nor does putting a backslash in front of the space help.

Any shell experts out there have any ideas? === Al

You might be able to do something like this:

IFS=$'\n' find `cat out` -name 'something*'

James Pearson