Re: Pls help with Unix shell question

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

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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