help with filesys oneliner

chr15t0 · 08-24-2003, 08:41 AM

guys,

just fiddling with a one liner.. a bit like the following:

Code:

for i in `ls -R /home/chris/incoming/mp3/| grep / | cut -f1 -d":"`; do ls -al $i;done

however, it barfs in directories which contain either a space, or a '.'

Can anyone suggest a quick way to fix this so that all directories are liststed.. Perhaps there's some trick I can pull with quoting.

thanks,
christo

chr15t0 · 08-24-2003, 08:43 AM

doh

find fixed it

cx

david_ross · 08-24-2003, 08:48 AM

Set your field seperator to a newline first:
IFS="
"

chr15t0 · 08-24-2003, 09:49 AM

Hmm - that's a new one to me. what would that do? On my system, IFS is not set by default

christo