On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 16:38 -0500, Michael Wiktowy wrote: > Greetings all, > > I have done a fair amount of experimentation and Googling trying to > find an answer to this and was wondering if some of the bash-scripting > gurus out there could give me a hand. > > I am trying to make a script that will accept a wildcard to match a > bunch of files and iterate over those absolute filenames; running the > command once per filename. It is fairly straight-forward to do so when > the filesnames don't have spaces but I haven't been able to find the > magic combination that doesn't treat every space as a list separator. > The closest I have gotten is to use the following script: > > #!/bin/bash > find $* -print0 | xargs -0 -I % command_to_iterate_over % Try "$@" instead of $* Paul.
