How can I read a list of filenames from a file in bash?

Question

I\'m trying to write a bash script that will process a list of files whose names are stored one per line in an input file, something the likes of

find . -type f          


        

Answer 1

I believe you can skip the temporary file entirely and just directly iterate over the results of find, i.e.:

for F in $(find . -type f -mtime +15) ; do
  ...
done;

No guarantees that my syntax is correct but I'm pretty sure the concept works.

Edit: If you really do have to process the file with a list of filenames and can't simply combine the commands as I did above, then you can change the value of the IFS variable--it stands for Internal Field Separator--to change how bash determines fields. By default it is set to whitespace, so a newline, space, or tab will begin a new field. If you set it to contain only a newline, then you can iterate over the file just as you did before.