[Sunhelp] Re: csh scripting problem

[Steffen Grunewald]

On Thu 2000-06-22 (09:37), Ben Dougherty wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm having problems trying to write a small script
> which will recursively step through a directory
> structure writing a file within each directory.
> I started with the following:
> 
> ---------------
> 
> # script name = "mpu_gen"
> #!/bin/csh
> 
> echo start mpu_gen var_path = $cwd
> 
> foreach file (*)
> 
> 	if ( -d $file ) then
> 		cd $file
> 		/usr/local/scripts/mpu_gen
> 	endif
> end
> 
> ---------------
> 
> Now this works most of the time but when I get
> directories with spaces in the name, it throws
> a wobbley (-d $file doesn't work).

Did you try to replace all occurrences of $file by "$file" ?

BTW, the #! line has to be the first one in the script...

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