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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Problem with shell script while spaces encountered in directory names Post 302977630 by Ivo Breeden on Wednesday 20th of July 2016 05:03:16 PM
Old 07-20-2016
First: `man find` shows there are options for "UNUSUAL FILENAMES" (e.g. filenames with spaces).
Code:
      -print0
              True;  print the full file name on the standard output, followed by a null character (instead of the newline char‐
              acter that -print uses).  This allows file names that contain newlines or other types of white space  to  be  cor‐
              rectly interpreted by programs that process the find output.  This option corresponds to the -0 option of xargs.

Second: using a "for loop" may be dangerous, there can be more results than a Unix line can handle. I would prefer a while loop.
Code:
find . -iname '*.jar' -print0 |while read jar
do
  jar -tf "$jar" >> cls.dat
done

Third: Scrutinizer already mentioned to use the -exec option of the `find` command. To my opinion this is the best method.
 

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