CentOS - Mar 2007 - Shell Question

So I list out some directories, and I redirect the output to a file
called "out".

I do it with:
   find . \( -type d ! -name . -prune \)' > out

I then go into "out" using my favorite editor and remove any
directories I don't want to search.

When I do a 
   find `cat out` -name 'something*'

I get an error on any directories with whitespace in them.  When I try
to place quotes around that name, it doesn't work, nor does putting a
backslash in front of the space help.

Any shell experts out there have any ideas?
    === Al

> -----Original Message-----
> From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On
> Behalf Of Al Sparks
> Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 3:33 PM
> To: Centos List
> Subject: [CentOS] Shell Question
> 
> So I list out some directories, and I redirect the output to a file
> called "out".
> 
> I do it with:
>    find . \( -type d ! -name . -prune \)' > out
> 
> I then go into "out" using my favorite editor and remove any
> directories I don't want to search.
> 
> When I do a
>    find `cat out` -name 'something*'
> 
> I get an error on any directories with whitespace in them.  When I try
> to place quotes around that name, it doesn't work, nor does putting a
> backslash in front of the space help.
> 
> Any shell experts out there have any ideas?
>     === Al
> 
Unless I am mistaken, you either have to backslash the quotes or use
double backslashes to quote the spaces because the shell will strip off
one backslash when the value comes out of cat, leaving the spaces
unquoted for the find.

In article <20070319223304.57032.qmail at web37115.mail.mud.yahoo.com>,
Al Sparks <data345 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> So I list out some directories, and I redirect the output to a file
> called "out".
> 
> I do it with:
>    find . \( -type d ! -name . -prune \)' > out
> 
> I then go into "out" using my favorite editor and remove any
> directories I don't want to search.
> 
> When I do a 
>    find `cat out` -name 'something*'
> 
> I get an error on any directories with whitespace in them.  When I try
> to place quotes around that name, it doesn't work, nor does putting a
> backslash in front of the space help.
> 
> Any shell experts out there have any ideas?
Try replacing the second find with:

cat out | while read d; do find "$d" -name 'something*'; done

Cheers
Tony
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Al Sparks wrote:
> So I list out some directories, and I redirect the output to a file
> called "out".
> 
> I do it with:
>    find . \( -type d ! -name . -prune \)' > out
> 
> I then go into "out" using my favorite editor and remove any
> directories I don't want to search.
> 
> When I do a 
>    find `cat out` -name 'something*'
> 
> I get an error on any directories with whitespace in them.  When I try
> to place quotes around that name, it doesn't work, nor does putting a
> backslash in front of the space help.
> 
> Any shell experts out there have any ideas?
>     === Al
You might be able to do something like this:

IFS=$'\n'
find `cat out` -name 'something*'

James Pearson