Re: Pls help with Unix shell question

From: Chris F.A. Johnson (c.fa.johnson_at_rogers.com)
Date: 03/05/04

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    Date: 5 Mar 2004 17:21:00 GMT

    On Fri, 05 Mar 2004 at 15:49 GMT, Michael Heiming wrote:
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    > wl <bli01@yahoo.com> wrote:
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    >> I have a bunch of files, ending with ".data" in a Unix directory, which I
    >> want to process in date order with a program. I recall doing
    >> something similar in the old days. Does anyone have an example?
    >
    > for f in `ls -atr *.data`

       This breaks is there are spaces in the file names. Use:

    ls -atr *.data | while IFS= read -r f

       Of course, this will not work if there are newlines in any of the
       file names. But I would consider that a broken file system.

    > do
    ><something with> $f
    > done
    >
    > Hint:
    > man ls 

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