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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Loop with Find—damn spaces! Post 302556850 by agama on Monday 19th of September 2011 11:04:00 PM
Old 09-20-2011
Try something like this:

Code:
find "$1" -name "*$ext" | while read fname
do
   path="${fname%/*}"
   base="${fname##*/}"

   echo "path: $path"
   echo "base: $base"
   echo "filename: $fname"
done

Small test I ran in Kshell echoed one line per filename as I think you want.
Last edited by agama; 09-20-2011 at 06:36 PM.. Reason: Corrected happy fingers typo
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Damn(3pm)						User Contributed Perl Documentation						 Damn(3pm)

NAME

       Acme::Damn - 'Unbless' Perl objects.

SYNOPSIS

	 use Acme::Damn;

	 my $ref = ... some reference ...
	 my $obj = bless $ref , 'Some::Class';

	 ... do something with your object ...

	    $ref = damn $obj;	# recover the original reference (unblessed)

	 ... neither $ref nor $obj are Some::Class objects ...

DESCRIPTION

       Acme::Damn provides a single routine, damn(), which takes a blessed reference (a Perl object), and unblesses it, to return the original
       reference.

   EXPORT
       By default, Acme::Damn exports the method damn() into the current namespace. Aliases for damn() (see below) may be imported upon request.

   Methods
       damn object
	   damn() accepts a single blessed reference as its argument, and returns that reference unblessed. If object is not a blessed reference,
	   then damn() will "die" with an error.

       bless reference
       bless reference [ , package ]
       bless reference [ , undef ]
	   Optionally, Acme::Damn will modify the behaviour of "bless" to allow the passing of an explicit "undef" as the target package to invoke
	   damn():

	       use Acme::Damn  qw( bless );

	       my  $obj = ... some blessed reference ...;

	       # the following statements are equivalent
	       my  $ref = bless $obj , undef;
	       my  $ref = damn $obj;

	   NOTE: The modification of "bless" is lexically scoped to the current package, and is not global.

   Method Aliases
       Not everyone likes to damn the same way or in the same language, so Acme::Damn offers the ability to specify any alias on import, provided
       that alias is a valid Perl subroutine name (i.e. all characters match "w").

	 use Acme::Damn qw( unbless );
	 use Acme::Damn qw( foo );
	 use Acme::Damn qw( unblessthyself );
	 use Acme::Damn qw( recant );

       Version 0.02 supported a defined list of aliases, and this has been replaced in v0.03 by the ability to import any alias for "damn()".

WARNING

       Just as "bless" doesn't call an object's initialisation code, "damn" doesn't invoke an object's "DESTROY" method. For objects that need to
       be "DESTROY"ed, either don't "damn" them, or call "DESTROY" before judgement is passed.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

       Thanks to Claes Jacobsson <claes@surfar.nu> for suggesting the use of aliases, and Bo Lindbergh <blgl@cpan.org> for the suggested
       modification of "bless".

SEE ALSO

       bless, perlboot, perltoot, perltooc, perlbot, perlobj.

AUTHOR

       Ian Brayshaw, <ian@onemore.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

       Copyright 2003-2012 Ian Brayshaw

       This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

perl v5.14.2							    2012-02-14								 Damn(3pm)
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