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