[Discuss] bash problem

[pw]

Rajiv Khaneja wrote:
> Your problem is with this line
> "for DIR in `find -type d`; do"
> 
> The out put of find is being tokenized by space and newlines... so with the
> directory "foo bar"  DIR is being set to foo first then on the next
> iteration bar.
> 
> I think you can do something like
> 
> IFS=$'\n'
> 
> and bash will only tokenize on new lines.
> 
> 
> 
> Other than that I can't think of anything... I find it easier to just use
> perl instead of dealing with bash string manipulation
> 


You're right. IFS! Of course!

Thank you

Peter