Re: Loop with files coming through sorted by name

[Alex fxmbsw7 Ratchev]

the glob, $loc/*glob* is super way
the $( is invalid

On Sat, Oct 16, 2021, 06:04 tolugboji <tolugboji@protonmail.com> wrote:

> ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
>
> On Saturday, October 16th, 2021 at 3:31 AM, Seth David Schoen <
> schoen@loyalty.org> wrote:
>
> > Seth David Schoen writes:
> >
> > > Typically people will suggest instead using the find command, either
> > >
> > > with the -exec flag or with the -print0 flag. This is extensively
> > >
> > > described in
> > >
> > >
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9612090/how-to-loop-through-file-names-returned-by-find
> > >
> > > A disadvantage there is that the command run by the -exec can only be
> > >
> > > a single command, not a bunch of shell scripting or even a pipeline.
> >
> > I didn't realize, but there is a newer approach which involves a bunch of
> >
> > historically recent bashisms
> >
> >
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23356779/how-can-i-store-the-find-command-results-as-an-array-in-bash/54561526#54561526
> >
> > You can thus do
> >
> > readarray -d "" myarray < <$(find . -type f -print0 | sort -zn)
> >
> > for i in "${myarray[@]}"; do
> >
> > arbitrary shell stuff with "$i"
> > ===============================
> >
> > done
> >
> > Classical Bourne shell scripting it isn't. :-)
>
>
> What's the opinion about
>
>   for flimg in $( find $fdir type f -name "$fnam-*.png" | sort -n )
>   do
>     echo "$flimg"
>   done
>
> There is a number after "-" (e.g. edvart-01.png edvart-02.png ...)
>
> Perhaps using the following is much better?
>
> for file in ${fdir}/$fnam-*.png
>
>