08-11-2008
Dealing with spaces in file names in a shell script
Hi,
What's the best way to find all files under a directory - including ones with space - in order to apply a command to each of them. For instance I want get a list of files under a directory and generate a checksum for each file.
Here's the csh script:
#!/bin/csh
set files = `find $1 -name '*'`
foreach file ($files)
set checksum = `sum $file`
# Ignore directories
if($status == 0) then
echo "$checksum $file"
endif
end
The problem with this is that if there are spaces in files, it doesn't work. Unfortunately csh is the only scripting language I sort of know. Is there a better way to do this?
Thank you in advance,
Sam
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