[PLUG] find | while read

[Tim]

> I found a workaround, but it's more complex than I like. I've included
> three generations of a simplified script as an example. What I'd like to
> know is, does anyone know a more sane method for looping over a list of
> files produced by a command like find, git or anything else?


I'm not intimately familiar with what you've got going, but often I rely
on the combination of find and xargs with NUL termination.  The only
characters not allowed in a file name in UNIX are '\0' and '/'.  If the
file names are NUL terminated, then you don't have to worry about nasty
parsing issues.  Unfortunately not too many tools support parsing based
on this, but xargs does:

  find . -name '*.txt' -print0 | xargs -0 aspell -c

To do multiple commands at once for a single file, you'd probably need
to muck around with the -I option in xargs.

good luck,
tim