Re: cd to folder with spaces - in a script

[Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir@cohens.org.il>]

On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 08:34:48PM +0200, Michael Casey wrote:
> yeah, SOLVED: :))
> 
> clear; find . -type d | while read FOLDERNAME; do $(cd "$FOLDERNAME"); done

I'm not sure what it is exactly that you try to do, but:

  $(cd "$FOLDERNAME")

chdir-s into that directory in a subshell and then returns the output of
that command (which is always empty) as the command to execute. That
command is empty which is a syntax error in the while loop.

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