I have the following code
arrFiles[0]=0
cd "/home/thenok/Documents/Link to thought diary"
for i in $(find -type f ! -name "*~"); do
arrFiles[0]=$[arrFiles[0]+1]
arrFiles[arrFiles[0]]="$i"
echo " pos ${arrFiles[0]} file ${arrFiles[arrFiles[0]]}"
done
but it outputs to (13 and 23 are files)
pos 354 file ./Link
pos 355 file to
pos 356 file diary/201504/quint/13
pos 357 file ./Link
pos 358 file to
pos 359 file diary/201511/23
which is bad because when using another command (stat) instead of echo it gives me
stat: cannot stat ‘./Link’: No such file or directory
stat: cannot stat ‘to’: No such file or directory
stat: cannot stat ‘thought’: No such file or directory
stat: cannot stat ‘diary/201411/done/31’: No such file or directory
I tried: 1: using a direct path instead of a link, 2:
arrFiles[0]=0
FILES="/home/thenok/Documents/Link to thought diary/*"
for i in "$FILES"; do
arrFiles[0]=$[arrFiles[0]+1]
arrFiles[arrFiles[0]]="$i"
echo " pos ${arrFiles[0]} file ${arrFiles[arrFiles[0]]}"
done
#result is pos 1 file /home/thenok/Documents/Link to thought diary/*
3: making the array directly doesn't use subfolders
arrFiles=( "/home/thenok/Documents/Link to thought diary/"* )
for f in "${arrFiles[@]}"
do
stat -c %s "$f"
echo "$f"
done
Solution found at How to read complete line in 'for' loop with spaces which is exactly what i wanted in the first place but didnt know how to write in google
IFS=$'\n' # make newlines the only separator
arrFiles[0]=0
cd "/home/thenok/Documents/Link to thought diary"
for i in $(find "/home/thenok/Documents/Link to thought diary/" -type f ! -name "*~"); do
arrFiles[0]=$[arrFiles[0]+1]
arrFiles[arrFiles[0]]="$i"
echo " pos ${arrFiles[0]} file ${arrFiles[arrFiles[0]]}"
done
output is
pos 10 file /home/thenok/Documents/Link to thought diary/Link to diary/201408/methinks questions.txt
pos 11 file /home/thenok/Documents/Link to thought diary/Link to diary/201408/methinks small.txt
pos 12 file /home/thenok/Documents/Link to thought diary/Link to diary/201408/methinks2.txt
pos 13 file /home/thenok/Documents/Link to thought diary/Link to diary/201408/methinkss.txt
pos 14 file /home/thenok/Documents/Link to thought diary/Link to diary/201408/myfile.txt
pos 15 file /home/thenok/Documents/Link to thought diary/Link to diary/201408/new 2.txt