[H-GEN] ksh scripting problem

[Anthony Towns]

On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 01:35:05AM +0930, Scott Pullen wrote:
> How do I copy files using the i-node instead of the filename?

You can't.

> The reason I ask is that I am using a for loop using filenames/directories
> that may contain spaces.  

Yup, that doesn't work.

> for $entity in `ls $source$entry`
      ^ tsk.

Another way of doing this is:

	ls $source$entry | while read entity

which will handle spaces differently, but not necessarily more
reliably. You're probably better off using shell globs.

> do
> 	if [[ -d $entity ]]; then
> 		recursively call function
> 	fi

find(1) is generally a better way of doing this.

> I thought of
> using the i-node which prompted the above question but I can't work out how
> to copy the files without using the find command which I think is
> inefficient.  

You can't reference a file by its inode - only the kernel can do
that. Once you've got a file, you can work out its inode, but that's
not the same thing.

Should I be offering you good luck on your assignment at this point?

Cheers,
aj

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