[Gllug] spaces and shell scripting

[Liam Smit]

Hi Jon

> I'm trying to write a shell (bash) script that uses find to get a list
> of file names and do different things depending on whether there are 0,
> 1 or more items in the list.
> 
> My problem is spaces in filenames and how to deal with them when I have
> a list of file names in a variable.  I got the script to work by running
> find multiple times and not using variables, e.g.

Why put a list of file names in a variable? 

It sounds like each filename should be in it's own variable.

> FILE_COUNT="find /some/directory -print | wc | cut -c 1"

Perhaps use wc -l to count lines, just put each file name on a new line?

Cheers
Liam
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