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Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 13:23:04 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: Mark Paulus <mark DOT paulus AT mci DOT com>
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Subject: Re: problem with find/grep
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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
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