Comments on: Run a UNIX command on each file in a directroy

By: NefAledly

NefAledly — Mon, 18 May 2009 00:38:26 +0000

hm. really like it

By: ignite

ignite — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 11:40:51 +0000

One more problem with loop variant: huge directories. I find one when my mailbox was massively spammed.
“find” successfully cleared it by spamc

By: H3g3m0n

H3g3m0n — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 09:19:20 +0000

Its working for me too now, that was causing me massive amounts of problems before :/

I think it must have been because I was originally trying to use the for loop with `ls` or `find .` instead of * which doesn’t seem to break things up, and probably didn’t bother to try the script with the ” around $FILE when I switched from find to *, problem with * is that there doesn’t seem to be any way to do anything more advanced such pattern matching (*.txt seems to become a file called “*.txt”), but it seems handy for basic scripts. Ill probably update the article when I get time later.

By: xpt

xpt — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 01:14:21 +0000

tested before posted.

By: xpt

xpt — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 01:13:34 +0000

how about my 1st comment, with my command,
the basic for loop, … it works for files like “Sample File.txt”.

By: H3g3m0n

H3g3m0n — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 10:47:48 +0000

Thanks I missed that, updated

EDIT: Seems it works without the ” under zsh which would explain why I didn’t catch it

By: xpt

xpt — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 23:32:35 +0000

I bet the last “find . | while ” will not be able to handle files with spaces in the filename either unless:

touch “$FILE”

By: xpt

xpt — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 23:28:55 +0000

First there is the basic for loop, it is able to handle files with spaces in
the filename, e.g., it works for files like “Sample File.txt”.

for file in *; do echo “Updating timestamp for $file”; touch “$file”; done