Re: [newbie] Find and spaces in file names ... was oowriter2

Tue, 23 May 2006 07:54:19 -0700


H.J.Bathoorn wrote: 
On Tuesday 23 May 2006 12:24 pm, Duncan Anderson wrote:
  
 Where I seem to pick up problems with "find" on its own is when a file
name contains a single quote "'".
    

played around a bit and found it's the -iname flag that loses the space_files, 
not xargs.
A simple " find . | grep -i  pattern " does find the files, and a lot quicker 
to boot. ;-)
Yes and no. The version I gave was for scanning inside the files for the pattern
- yours is for finding the pattern amongst the file names themselves. Different
job, different solution :-) IMHO I don't consider find a sledgehammer - one of the
most useful functions next to grep.

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