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Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 12:04:11 -0600
From: Mark Paulus <mark DOT paulus AT mci DOT com>
Subject: Re: problem with find/grep
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Thanks.  I was not aware of the -print0 option.  This is 
what I love about *n*x:  Always something new to learn, 
or another way to find a solution.


On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 13:14:12 -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:

>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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