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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting [SOLVED] UNIX FOR loop to read a variable with multiple values Post 302742763 by Corona688 on Tuesday 11th of December 2012 02:07:21 PM
Old 12-11-2012
You can just specify IFS for the read instead of changing it for the entire program:

Code:
while IFS=" " read -r dir; do
(
        cd $dir
        files2del=$(find ./ -type d ! -name . -prune -o -mtime +$NUM_DAYS -name '*.dat' )
        echo "$files2del"
for i in $files2del
                do
                        echo "Arg is ="
                done
)
done < dirlist_1.txt

This should let $files2del split on any whitespace.
 

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