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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting [help]Delete or replace text in multiple file and multiple directory Post 302211560 by Smiling Dragon on Thursday 3rd of July 2008 05:24:21 PM
Old 07-03-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by radoulov
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 Smilie
 

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pathological

PATHOLOGICAL(6) 						   Pathological 						   PATHOLOGICAL(6)

NAME

       pathological - A puzzle game involving paths and marbles

SYNOPSIS

       pathological [ -h | --help ] [ -cb ] [ -f ] [ -s ] [ -q ] [ highscores-file ]

DESCRIPTION

       Pathological  is  an  enriched  clone of the game "Logical" by Rainbow Arts.  To solve a level, fill each wheel with four balls of matching
       color.  Various board elements such as teleporters, switches, filters, etc., make the game interesting and challenging.	New levels can	be
       created using your favorite text editor.  For more information, see the website:

	http://pathological.sourceforge.net/

OPTIONS

       -h | --help
	      Show a brief command line options summary.

       -cb    Enable special graphics for color-blind people.

       -f     Start game in full-screen mode.  This is especially useful on certain systems (eg, Windows) where Pygame's toggle-fullscreen feature
	      doesn't work.

       -s     Enable screen-capture mode.  In this mode, the "Game Paused" dialog doesn't appear when the game is paused.

       -q     Begin with sound disabled.

AUTHOR

       Pathological was written by John-Paul Gignac <jp@gignac.org> with the help of several contributors.  See the README file for details.

P
								   June 19, 2003						   PATHOLOGICAL(6)
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