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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers While loop, input from find command Post 302913214 by Corona688 on Thursday 14th of August 2014 01:43:33 PM
Old 08-14-2014
Try echo $SHELL to find your shell. Or just ps. "which shell" looks for a command named shell, which isn't much help.

How about this, with -name to avoid the grep. This checks in the filename. -path would check in the file path instead.

Code:
find . -type f -ctime -1 -name '*abc*' | while IFS="" read -r FILE
do
        echo "$FILE"
done



The IFS avoids having read split on anything, and the -r prevents it from trying to evaluate backslashes. It's a good habit when you want read to give you literal, unchanged input...

One caveat: Variables you set inside the "while" won't be set outside the loop. The | puts the loop into a separate, independent subshell.
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NAME

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SYNOPSIS

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DESCRIPTION

       surfraw-update-path adds the surfraw elvi directory (/usr/lib/surfraw) to your PATH in your shell's config file.

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       -check
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       -add
	   Adds the surfraw config code.

       -remove
	   Removes the surfraw config code

       -sys
	   Updates the system-wide shell config instead of the user.  Must be done as root.

       -shell=SHELL
	   Selects the shell to configure. Defaults to the value of the $SHELL environment variable.

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       -all
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       SHELL
	   Used to determine which shell to configure, if -shell is not given.

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