Bash: for…in-loop fails, what am I doing wrong?

[Tony Arnold]

Johnny,

On 10/01/13 20:07, Paul Smith wrote:

> Something that will be more reliable than the above would be:
> 
>   find -regextype posix-extended -regex '.*/P[A-Z0-9][0-9]{6}\.(jpg|JPG|jpeg)' \
>       | while IFS= read -r File; do
>           date --reference="${File}" '+%Y%m'
>         done

Or you could use the -exec option to the find command as follows:

find -regextype posix-extended \
     -regex '.*/P[A-Z0-9][0-9]{6}\.(jpg|JPG|jpeg)' \
     -exec date --reference="{}" '+%Y%m' \;

What follows -exec is executed once for each file found. The {} is
replaced with the file name. Note the command must be terminated by an
escaped semi-colon, i.e., \;

Regards,
Tony.
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