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Re: arrays and spaces in file names?

names=( **/*(.) )

-Eric Mangold
On Fri, 26 May 2006 07:32:13 +1000, sam reckoner <sam.reckoner@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I need the intermediate step of putting the filenames in an array for other 
reasons.

Thanks!



On 5/25/06, Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:


On 5/24/06, reckoner <sam.reckoner@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I want to do something like
>
> % names=(`find . -print`)
>
> and then something like
>
> % for i in names do;...;done
>
> The problem is that some of the filenames have spaces in them and the
> array elements split on these spaces. I read the manpage and can't make 
> sense of what to do w/ this.
>
> Help?

Try this,
for i in **/*(.); do foo; bar;  done

> Thanks.

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Mikael Magnusson
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