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Re: Need to break a string "Hello1 Hello2 Hello3 Hello4 ..." into an array (

Stephane CHAZELAS

2007-07-23, 7:20 pm

2007-07-20, 08:43(-04), Henry Townsend:
> Lucky7 wrote:
>
> set -- $(find ...)
[...]

No.

IFS='
'
set -f
set -- $(find ...)

which still doesn't work for file paths containing newline
characters.

The way to go is to use find -exec if you want to run some
commands on every file looked up by find.

--
Stéphane