Moving Files (Again)

[Kevin D. Clark]

Bob Bell <bobbell at zk3.dec.com> writes:

>     I forget if you are one of the ones who considers spaces "stange
> characters", but that general method breaks with filenames with spaces.
> I general find that instead of:
>
> for foo in `find blah`; do
>     # do stuff
> done
>
> the following is typically more reliable:
>
> find blah | while read foo; do
>     # do stuff
> done

Yeah, you're right.  The method that you describe is preferable.

(my fingers generally produce my "for" loop without involving my brain
-- maybe I should re-train my fingers...)

Thanks for pointing this out,

--kevin
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