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Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 11:28:29 +0930
From: Tim Peters <tim@lost.net.au>
To: Duncan Anker <d.anker@au.darkbluesea.com>
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: find case-insensitive challenge
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On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 09:05:10AM +1000, Duncan Anker wrote:
> > 
> > find foo -type f | grep -i '\.jpg$' | xargs -J % mv % bar
> > 
> 
> My preferred method also. But ... I can never get that to work if there
> are spaces (or other illegal characters) in the file names.
> 
> And no, I don't usually put spaces in my filenames, but I use this quite
> frequently behind the scenes on Mac OS X.

FYI, find and xargs can work with weird filenames (as long as they
don't contain a \0) with these kind of options:

find . -print0 | xargs -0 command

(although i don't know if OSX has these :)

-tim

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