From owner-freebsd-bugs Thu Oct 24 07:21:24 1996 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA23876 for bugs-outgoing; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 07:21:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jack.colorado.edu (jack.Colorado.EDU [128.138.149.29]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA23869; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 07:21:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jack (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jack.colorado.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3/CNS-4.0p) with SMTP id IAA11773; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 08:21:19 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <326F7B5F.757D@Colorado.EDU> Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 08:21:19 -0600 From: "Mark O'Lear" Organization: University of Colorado X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (X11; I; SunOS 5.4 sun4m) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Marc G. Fournier" CC: angio@aros.net, freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: misc/1335 References: <199610230413.VAA01730@freefall.freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > Synopsis: /etc/security generates an error with files with spaces. > > State-Changed-From-To: open-feedback > State-Changed-By: scrappy > State-Changed-When: Tue Oct 22 21:12:07 PDT 1996 > State-Changed-Why: > > I've noticed this problem as well, with some files on my system. Its > annoying, but is it fixable? It's because of the -X option of find (which tells find to complain if the file has a space, ", or ' in it, because it is passing the results back to xargs). It would be nice if find had another flag that would return a file name with ' marks around the file name or a \ before the "bad" character instead of just complaining about it. -- Mark O'Lear \ e-mail: Mark.Olear@Colorado.EDU University of Colorado \ phone: (303) 492-3798 Telecomm. Svcs. (CB 313) \ fax: (303) 492-5105 Boulder, CO 80309 \