doing a recursive spacemall was clanging way down into a lot of hierarchies it had no right to do. the expected behavior was, and is, that this just operates on a single dir at a time.
dirs=(.)
fi
echo "dirs are: " "${dirs[@]}"
-
-#was using: -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1
- find "${dirs[@]}" -follow -type f \( $(echo pdf png jpg jpeg odt ods docx m4a mp3 eml html mov pptx xlsx zip | sed -e 's/\([a-z0-9][a-z0-9]*\)/-iname \"*.\1\" -o /g') -iname "*.txt" \) -exec bash "$FEISTY_MEOW_SCRIPTS/files/spacem.sh" "{}" \;
+ find "${dirs[@]}" -follow -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -type f \( $(echo pdf png jpg jpeg odt ods docx m4a mp3 eml html mov pptx xlsx zip | sed -e 's/\([a-z0-9][a-z0-9]*\)/-iname \"*.\1\" -o /g') -iname "*.txt" \) -exec bash "$FEISTY_MEOW_SCRIPTS/files/spacem.sh" "{}" \;
}
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