bash question: capture results of find as a variable (multiple files)

graysky · 2010-02-20 20:09:18

Basically, I need a way to capture the results of a find command to a variable in a bash script so I can recall the filename in a more complex string of commands. How is this best accomplished?

For example:

$ find /home/user -name '*.wav'

That outputs a list of say 15 .wav files. I need to feed each filename into a longer string that does several things to the wav files. If it were just one wav file, I think I could capture it like this:

var=`find /home/user -name '*.wav'`

Then I can simply use ${var} in the longer string of commands. I dunno how to do it with multiple files in this way.

Last edited by graysky (2010-02-20 20:18:38)

ZaQ · 2010-02-20 20:29:36

all='find /home/user -name '*.wav'
for var in $all
do
   echo $var
done

Michael C. · 2010-02-20 20:36:41

Apologies, misread.

Last edited by Michael C. (2010-02-20 20:38:31)

graysky · 2010-02-20 20:38:36

Yeah, I need to separate each of the wav files as their own variable, run them through a string of commands, then repeat for the 2nd on the the list.

Michael C. · 2010-02-20 20:41:07

Oh, I guess I didn't misread.

for foo in $(find /home/user '*.wav')
do
    bar=$(do_something "$foo")
    bigger_var="$bigger_var $bar"
done

Last edited by Michael C. (2010-02-20 20:41:50)

graysky · 2010-02-20 20:41:50

Thank you! This did just what I wanted it to do

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bash question: capture results of find as a variable (multiple files)

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