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Old 07-03-2008
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Quote:
Originally Posted by radoulov View Post
Both will breake if the filenames contain embedded spaces or other pathological characters.
Ooh, very good point! Me = Fail.
Ok then:
Code:
find . -type f | while read i
heh, 'pathological characters', nice way of putting it