Suitable for what?
There's one sort of modification you need to feed the
output from find to xargs. That's done with -print0 on
"find" and --null on "xargs".
There's another sort of modification that would be needed
if you were turning the output from find into suitably
escaped URL query strings. There's a perl module for
that, but by default it doesn't give all the protection
you want. If you give it an idea of the characters you
consider troublesome, though, it does just fine.
find / | perl -MURI::Escape -ne 'chomp; print
uri_escape($_, "^\\w-.\\/" ),"\n"'
This will turn each of your troublesome characters into
their %xx hex equivalent.
If you're doing the sort of thing Derek suggested
though, there are two different encodings you want to do
at once, one for the URL and one for the HTML. To
transform your list of files into a set of HTML links,
then, you'd need something like this:
find / | perl -MHTML::Entitities -MURI::Escape -ne \
'chomp;print qq{<A href="http://host/},uri_escape( $_, \
"\\w-.\\/"),qq{">},encode_entities($_),"</A>\n"'
(and I sure hope I got all my quotes, parens, and
brackets matched up right when I typed that!)
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