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From: roy@prism.gatech.EDU (Roy Mongiovi)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: Help - we lost all our files!
Message-ID: <32011@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Date: 30 Jun 91 03:06:36 GMT
References: <1347@escob1.UUCP> <8928@awdprime.UUCP> <3792@charon.cwi.nl>
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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In article <3792@charon.cwi.nl>, dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter) writes:
> due to the way xargs handles its input it is not suitable to process the
> output from find.

I run the output of find through the following sed before piping it to xargs:

	sed -e "/'/s/'/'\\\\''/g" -e "s/^/'/" -e "s/$/'/"

This puts single quotes around each file name, and also handles file names
containing single quotes.  Is this acceptable, or is there a way to defeat
this too?
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Roy J. Mongiovi     Systems Support Specialist     Office of Computing Services
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