Re: How to escape "find" result

["Eric G. Miller" <egm2@jps.net>]

On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 08:52:36PM -0500, Try KDE wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to run the following script:
>   for f in $(find . -name "*.txt"); do cmd1;cmd2;cmd3; done
> ,where cmd1, cmd2 and cmd3 are arbiturary commands. The problem is, if 
> the found file names contain a space , for example "part1 part2.txt" 
> will be interpreted as "part1" and "part2.txt". I'm thinkin an esacping 
> tool may be able turn it into "part1\ part2.txt" before passing it to 
> "for" loop. Any thought?

Does:

IFS="^M" && for f in $(find . -name "*.txt"); do cmd1; cmd2; cmd3; done

work? (replace ^M with real newline)

There's also the trick of:

for f in *.txt; do echo "$f" ; done


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