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

[Neill Jones]

Joao Batista Gomes de Freitas wrote: From: "H.J.Bathoorn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: newbie@mandrivalinux.org Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 18:13:24 +0200 Subject: Re: [newbie] Find and spaces in file names ... was oowriter2 On Wednesday 24 May 2006 03:29 pm, Neill Jones wrote: >  Just for info and clarity: > <snip> Maybe I am not understanding very well,  when I want to combine find and grep I type : find /whereever -type f -exec grep -H "pattern" {} \; It does show filenames with spaces. Yep that's certainly an alternative in the case of searching inside files for the pattern. It doesn't help if you want to search the list of files themselves, and doesn't whenever you want to work on the entire output from find as exec works on each file individually. So it depends on what you are trying to do. Regards Neill