BASH scripting question

From: NS (lesborock_at_NOSPAM.yahoo.com.au)
Date: 10/07/03 

Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2003 14:33:39 +1000

I have a very simple task that eludes me.
I have been in the process of administrating a huge amount of data on a
pre-existing file server. The problem is that a lot of the directories and
files have been copied from various sources and as a result have
non-sequitor file names. eg. containing one or more spaces and ampersands.
This obviously causes some problems.

Stop me here if there is an easier way.

I need to compile a list of all these files and especially directories.

So in a shell script I do:

directories=`find . -type d -print`

The problem is that the escape characters for the spaces etc. get
interpereted as newlines, so that when I try to reference the names from
within the variable it breaks them.

I have tried (and other variations):

echo $directories | sed -e 's/\\//g' > result
directories =`cat result`

but still no joy.

I know it's simple but I can't seem to work it out.

Thanks in advance.

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