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 Message-ID: <20020920015829.GA85636@adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <1032476710.2579.8.camel@duncan> References: <200209191353.g8JDrnlA057534@lurza.secnetix.de> <1032476710.2579.8.camel@duncan>
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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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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