Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:39:23 -0700 From: Bill Campbell <freebsd@celestial.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: file/directory names with space in between Message-ID: <20080414233923.GA25385@ayn.mi.celestial.com> In-Reply-To: <4803E7D4.7080003@schrodinger.com> References: <4803E7D4.7080003@schrodinger.com>
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On Mon, Apr 14, 2008, Simon Gao wrote:
>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.
Generally it's better to use find and xargs when processing
arbitrary lists of files. It can be significantly more efficient
than ``exec'ing'' a command for each file when the command can
process multiple arguments, and they previde for file names with
strange characters using the -print0 option to find, and -0
option to xargs as in:
find something -print0 | xargs -0 command
Bill
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