>>>>> "David" == Karr, David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
David> I work on a project where some of the files and directories
David> were created with spaces in them. That will eventually be
David> rectified, but it's hard to say when (we use a CM system
David> that doesn't make this easy to deal with).
David> I often find that I have to do "find | grep" operations. I
David> realized I couldn't get this to work unless I did something
David> like this:
David> find . -type f | xargs -n100 -i{} grepf searchstring
David> "{}" <...snip...>
David> Is there any way to get back my more efficient command
David> line, while still working with my annoying "spacy"
David> directories?
Well, I don't know about more "efficient", but there is a better way:
$ find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 grepf searchstring
This command-line will use nulls instead of whitespace to separate the
filenames. Refer to the manual pages for find(1) and xargs(1) for
more information regarding the -print0 and -0 options. This approach
is what I use whenever I need to process files in the "C:\Program
Files" directory.
Hope this helps,
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Dario Alcocer -- Sr. Software Developer, Helix Digital Inc.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.helixdigital.com
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