Re: Pls help with Unix shell question
From: Michael Heiming (michael+USENET_at_www.heiming.de)
Date: 03/05/04
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Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 18:56:08 +0100
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Chris F.A. Johnson <c.fa.johnson@rogers.com> wrote:
> 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`
Hi Chris!
> 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.
Yep, albeit I'd call using spaces in filenames broken, sure most
*nix FS will handle it just fine, albeit it requires lots of
quoting in scripts and isn't IMHO worth the trouble.
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