On Tue, 9 Jun 2009 09:42:34 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote:
> -exec command {} +
> This variant of the -exec action runs the specified command on the
> selected files, but the command line is built by appending each
> selected file name at the end; the total number of invocations of the
> command will be much less than the number of matched files. The
> command line is built in much the same way that xargs builds its
> command lines. Only one instance of `{}' is allowed within the
> command. The command is executed in the starting directory.
How does this handle quoted filenames?
Does -exec command "{}" +
do
command "file 1 file 2 file 3"
or
command "file 1" "file 2" "file 3"
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Neil Bothwick
All generalizations are false, including this one.
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