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Spaces in filenames

#697
From: Brendan T. McNichols
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 18:47
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Hi all,

I have the following script which I modified from an earlier post by Jim  
Kiraly to search through the entire filesystem and delete all old files  
in .NextTrash directories.  

# ---  Empty the Recycler(s)   --- Changed by Brendan on August 10, 1992
# from an earlier version posted by Jim Kiraly to comp.sys.next.sysadmin 
#
# Search through entire filesystem looking for .NextTrash directories.
# Save the list in the variable trashlist. For every .NextTrash directory 
# found in the previous command, find and delete all files that are more 
# than 1 day old.
trashlist=`find / -type d -name .NextTrash -prune -print`
for j in $trashlist 
  do
    echo 'Removing files more than 1 day old from recycler: '$j
#    find $j -ctime +1 -depth -exec rm -rf {};
  done

Unfortunatly, the script does not work if one of the paths in the  
trashlist variable has a space in it.  When the for loop gets to the path  
with the space in it, it thinks that the path is actually two paths.   
Anyone know how I would go about fixing this problem?  Can anyone think  
of a better way of writing this script?

Thanks very much in advance,
Brendan

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Brendan T. McNichols, Computer Support                (315) 443-9577
Psyracuse U. Sychology Dept.             mcnichol@psy.syr.edu (NeXT)
430 Huntington Hall                                 mcnichol@syr.edu
Syracuse, NY 13244
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From: mcnichol@terminator.psy.syr.edu (Brendan T. McNichols)
Subject: Spaces in filenames
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