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Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 13:14:12 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: problem with find/grep
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On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 11:00:35AM -0600, 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.

So use "find -print0 | xargs -0".

cgf

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