[NTLUG:Discuss] Shell script help 2

[Rev. wRy]

On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 05:49:30PM -0500, . Daniel wrote:
> bit.  I may end up simply using rsync in the end but I still want to learn 
> more shell scripting through this activity.  In studying random examples on 
> the web, I have come up with an interesting way of reading input from 
> outside sources such as a file or the execution of a command.

Learning more is always great, but reinventing the wheel, not so much.
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> Here's the problem.  As I mentioned, the for loop reads the output of 
> "find" "word by word" and not "line by line."  This presents a problem when 
> filenames have spaces or other delimiter characters in them.  Is there 
> another way to read input line-by-line the way I need?  I can create a 
> temporary file containing the output of "find" but I don't see what good 
> that does since it's something about the for loop that's making it 
> word-by-word.  Since this will not work, how can I read a file or output 
> "line-by-line"?

awk & sed are your friends and mine.

RW