From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 14 23:25:10 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0D781065670 for ; Mon, 14 Apr 2008 23:25:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gao@schrodinger.com) Received: from schrodinger.com (thermidore.schrodinger.com [192.156.98.99]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B7B28FC1B for ; Mon, 14 Apr 2008 23:25:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gao@schrodinger.com) Received: from [192.156.98.12] (ithi.schrodinger.com [192.156.98.12]) by schrodinger.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id m3ENP9h4034748 for ; Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:25:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gao@schrodinger.com) Message-ID: <4803E7D4.7080003@schrodinger.com> Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:25:08 -0700 From: Simon Gao User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20080229) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (schrodinger.com [192.156.98.99]); Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:25:10 -0700 (PDT) Subject: file/directory names with space in between X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 23:25:10 -0000 Hi, I need to work on some files and directories that have spaces in them like: interesting story\2008 March\{story one,story two}. When using find with -exec, part of the file/directory name will be missing and therefore lead to error. What should I do to put escape key in there to include full names? Simon