Joerg Schilling <[email protected]> [16-09-03 12:28]: > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I want to 'locate' a bunch of files and feed the output into > > '| xargs md5sum'. > > Unfortunately some of them are infected with the "file name"-virus > > (space in the filename). > > With find there is the -print0 option which corresponds to '-0' of > > the xargs options. As of my knowledge, locate does not have such > > a thing. > > This is one of the reasons, why POSIX did not include -print0, as it would > need > to add new related options to an unknown amount of other programs. > > Another reason of curse is that "find . -exec cmd {} +" exists longer than > GNU > find and it's -print0. Execplus was added on 1989 by David Korn. > > Jörg > > -- > EMail:[email protected] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 > Berlin > [email protected] (work) Blog: > http://schily.blogspot.com/ > URL: http://cdrecord.org/private/ > http://sourceforge.net/projects/schilytools/files/' >
...and how does it solve my problem?
