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Date:	Tue, 12 Oct 2004 15:39:56 -0700
From:	Brian Dessent <brian AT dessent DOT net>
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To:	"cygwin AT cygwin DOT com" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject:	Re: problem with find/grep
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Mark Paulus wrote:
> 
> Another issue I've run into with find, but typically when I pipe
> it to xargs is that directories/files with spaces in the names cause
> all kind of disruption.

Add "-print0" to your find arguments and "-0" to your xargs arguments
and that problem will disappear.

Brian

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