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You're probably over-complicating things. Have you heard about the
find -print0 | xargs -0
idiom? all that variable interpolation (dir=${dir:2}
) and quoting"'""${dir}""'"
is better to be dealt by the built-in shell tools. Or you could write a script for the whole body of that while loop, and then callfind . -exec ./action.sh {} \;
. Same script could be used with the previously mentioned idiom too, you'd need to usebash -c ./action.sh
though. One advantage of "find | xargs" is that you can run these concurrently, paralellizing the action to all your dirs, in groups, of say 4 of them... and so on... it's cool and simple.