On 5/25/06, Michael Sternberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I need to perform some task on specific files recusrsively. Problem is
that directories names can contain spaces. Something like that (in
/bin/sh) does not works:
for f in `find . -name '*.c*'`; do file $f; done
That's what "find -print0" and "xargs -0" were invented for:
find -name "*.c*" -print0 | xargs -0 -n 1 file
will do the same as your sample.
Since "file" can take multiple file names you can drop the "-n 1".
("." as the only path for "find" is pre-gnu-find legacy, you don't need it)
--Amos
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