[ale] SOLUTION Re: Keep space separated values sane in a bash "for" loop?

[James P. Kinney III]

On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 20:04 -0400, Geoffrey wrote:
> I think there is a simpler way of attacking this problem.  It doesn't 
> handle file names that end in a space, but other then that, it appears 
> to work.  I have a directory that contains the following:
> 
> rhwsfoo> ls -l
> total 28
> drwxr-xr-x  3 esoteric esoteric 4096 Apr  9 20:01 bar
> drwxr-xr-x  2 esoteric esoteric 4096 Apr  9 19:19 bar, far
> drwxr-xr-x  2 esoteric esoteric 4096 Apr  9 19:19 bar foo
> -rwx------  1 esoteric esoteric   72 Apr  9 20:01 fixit
> drwxr-xr-x  2 esoteric esoteric 4096 Apr  9 19:33  leading space
> drwxr-xr-x  2 esoteric esoteric 4096 Apr  9 19:34 trailing space
> drwxrwxr-x  2 esoteric esoteric 4096 Apr  9 19:59   two leading spaces
> 
> ('trailing space ' above has a trailing space as it's last character)
> 
> You can trick the shell into dealing with leading spaces with the following:
> 
> find -maxdepth 1 -type d -print |while read fn; do
> du -sh "${fn}"
> done
> 
> Run against the above directory yields:
> 
> 36K     .
> 8.0K    ./bar
> 4.0K    ./bar foo
> 4.0K    ./bar, far
> 4.0K    ./ leading space
> du: cannot access `./trailing space/': No such file or directory
> 4.0K    ./  two leading spaces
> 
> Grant it, it doesn't handle the trailing space, but it's almost there. :)
> 
I ran the 
find . -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -type d -print0 | xargs -0 du -sh

against a temp dir with the following:
 ls -1F
betty, bam bam/
dino, pebbles and that cat /
fred/
fred barney/
fred barney wilma /

So I have spaces, commas, ending spaces.

[jkinney at merlin test1]$ find . -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -type d -print0 |
xargs -0 du -sh
4.0K    ./fred barney
4.0K    ./dino, pebbles and that cat
4.0K    ./fred barney wilma
4.0K    ./fred
4.0K    ./betty, bam bam



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