[Gllug] Re: spaces and shell scripting

[Jon Dye]

Tethys wrote:
> Jon Dye writes:
>>I'm trying to write a shell (bash) script
> 
> Try and avoid writing bash scripts. Unless you really need a bash
> specific feature, write a generic bourne shell script (or korn shell
> if you need more than /bin/sh provides).

I nearly wrote that I was writing a sh script because I usually try and 
do what you suggest, not really sure why I wrote bash in the end!

>>but I want to avoid multiple find statements because they are slow.  I 
>>guess I want either to put the list of files in a variable with 
>>delimiters between the file names or put them into an array somehow.
> 
> Put the output of the find command into a temporary file, and work
> on it there. This will handle files containing whitespace and other
> metacharacters, provided you don't have filenames containing newlines[1].

That's solved it, thanks.

JD
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