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Old 10-05-2009
awk help with find command and filenames with spaces
I have the following code:

Code:
 find /usr/local/test5 -type f -mtime +30 -exec ls -l {} \; | awk '{print $5, $6, $7, $8, $9}'

I have this as output:

Code:
14 Aug 12 00:00 /usr/local/test5/file1
14 Aug 12 00:00 /usr/local/test5/lastname,

The bolded part is where I run into trouble. The actual filename is:

Code:
/usr/local/test5/lastname, firstname.pdf

I want to return the whole file name with spaces and all and delete it at the end of the find command via | and xargs.

Anyone know how to handle issues like this with spaces in the filenames? Keep in mind this is a script that deals with files uploaded by users I have no control over, so spaces in filenames I can't control.
# 2  
Old 10-05-2009
Code:
find /usr/local/test5 -type f -mtime +30 -exec ls -l {} \; | cut -d " " -f 6-

# 3  
Old 10-05-2009
Code:
find /usr/local/test5 -type f -mtime +30 -print | while read FILENAME
do
          # The filename including spaces is now in ${FILENAME}
          echo "${FILENAME}"
done

# 4  
Old 10-05-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by protocomm
Code:
find /usr/local/test5 -type f -mtime +30 -exec ls -l {} \; | cut -d " " -f 6-

Quote:
Originally Posted by methyl
Code:
find /usr/local/test5 -type f -mtime +30 -print | while read FILENAME
do
          # The filename including spaces is now in ${FILENAME}
          echo "${FILENAME}"
done

Hey guys thanks for this, I am trying to add another line to delete the output with "rm" , but I am getting errors saying "no such file or directory"
this is obviously due to the spaces in the filename.

Here is an example of what I am running that is throwing errors.

Code:
find /usr/local/test5 -type f -mtime +30 -exec ls -l {} \; | cut -d " " -f 6- | grep -- "lastname, firstname.pdf" | xargs rm

Last edited by streetfighter2; 10-05-2009 at 05:45 PM..
# 5  
Old 10-06-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by streetfighter2
Hey guys thanks for this, I am trying to add another line to delete the output with "rm" , but I am getting errors saying "no such file or directory"
this is obviously due to the spaces in the filename.

Here is an example of what I am running that is throwing errors.

Code:
find /usr/local/test5 -type f -mtime +30 -exec ls -l {} \; | cut -d " " -f 6- | grep -- "lastname, firstname.pdf" | xargs rm

Hi!

Well, the space character is lurking there again when running xargs. You should loop over the file names as methyl proposed earlier.

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