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From: cudcv@warwick.ac.uk (Rob McMahon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: recursive grep
Message-ID: <191@titania.warwick.ac.uk>
Date: 30 Aug 89 17:16:17 GMT
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Reply-To: cudcv@warwick.ac.uk (Rob McMahon)
Organization: Computing Services, Warwick University, UK
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Re: `find ... -print | xargs' and filenames with spaces/newlines.

In article <9408@chinet.chi.il.us> les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) writes:
>Well, how would you go about parsing filenames out of a list if you can't use
>spaces or newlines as the delimiters?

Spaces should be no problem.  Find prints it's filenames separated by
newlines, and xargs should have an option which means take each line of input
literally as a single argument, *not* ignoring spaces anywhere (in fact I
think this should be the default, how often do you use xargs with more than
one argument per line ?).  It would be useful if find quoted each newline in a
filename with a backslash.

Rob
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