Re: guaranteed processing of directory trees?

On Thu 14 Jul 2005 00:09, "Sam Smith" <[email protected]> writes:

> I can't find a standard version of the ftw thingie in ksh.
>
> I did find some snippets of code to process a directory tree, using
>
> (run/strings* (find ...))
>
> But I don't know if this guarantees the processing of all files,
> directories, symlinks, etc ..., even with spaces, quotes, weird euro
> or Asian characters, and so forth.

Sunterlib[1] contains the dir-streams package, which offers functions
for representing directories as streams of file objects and traversing
them in terms of FOLD, MAP, and FOR-EACH operations.  That might be
what you are looking for.

-Eric

Footnotes: 
[1]  <http://www.scsh.net/resources/sunterlib.html>
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