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From: Norberto Meijome <freebsd@meijome.net>
To: Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu>
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Subject: Re: find returns unusable result
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On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 17:12:58 -0600
Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu> wrote:

> I thought I could just do this:
> chmod 755 `find /path/to/dirs -type d`
> 
> but find returns a directory name of Day, Day, Day, which (obviously) 
> doesn't work.

And for completeness sake, if you want to change the delimiter in your (bash*)
 shell,  set IFS to something else , eg

export IFS=|

so now, instead of breaking Day and 2 apart, they'll be considered 1 list item.
Which of course may bring other problems... but :)

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