Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 13:23:04 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Mark Paulus cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: problem with find/grep In-Reply-To: <0I5H00EZWDWZK8@pmismtp01.mcilink.com> Message-ID: References: <0I5H00EZWDWZK8@pmismtp01.mcilink.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.39 On Tue, 12 Oct 2004, 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. Not related to this thread, and actually not Cygwin-specific. Use "find ... -print0 | xargs -0 ...". In fact, it's also always useful to give the "-r" flag to xargs. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing." -- Dr. Jubal Harshaw -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/