Re: iterating through a hierarchy with a filter

[Vincent Lefevre <vincent@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2008-04-14 14:39:25 -0700, Alexy Khrabrov wrote:
> I have the filter given as a parameter to my script, invoked as  
> suggested,
>
> $filter < $file1 > $file2
>
> If I give a single existing script as a parameter, it works fine.  If,  
> however, I give it
>
> walk 'iconv -f utf8 -t cp1251' srcdir tgtdir ...
>
> -- I get "command not found" for 'iconv -f utf8 -t cp1251' at the line  
> above.  Since the walk script starts with
>
> #/bin/zsh
> filter=$1

You need to do sh word-splitting on $1 and make $filter an array:

filter=(${=1})

Alternatively, you can enable sh word-splitting globally.

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