Re: mv xrags and cp

Florian Diesch <diesch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

See my answer to the same mail.


If you want do it with a loop use a while loop:

find olddir -name '*.jpg | while read fname; do
do_something_with_file $fname
done

This works as long as there's no linebreak in a filename


Nope.

find olddir -name '*.jpg | while read fname; do

breaks on leading white space (typo ignored),

do_something_with_file $fname

breaks on any white space whatsoever.

find olddir -name '*.jpg' | while IFS= read fname; do
do_something_with_file "$fname"
done

or use the canonical version which imposes no restrictions at oll on
file names:

find olddir -name '*.jpg' -exec do_something_with {} \;



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