[clug] Help with bash script

Peter Barker pbarker at barker.dropbear.id.au
Sun Nov 2 06:29:20 GMT 2008


On Sun, 2 Nov 2008, Duncan Roe wrote:

>  find . -type f -print | sed -e 's/ /\\ /g' | xargs whatever

Try:
find. -type f -print0 | xargs -0 whatever

find null-terminates the strings (rather than using EOL), and xargs 
expects null-terminated strings on its standard input.

> Cheers ... Duncan.

Yours,
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