On Thursday 20 December 2007 13:05, Phil Burness wrote:
> How can I identify file names that end with a space?

% find directoryName -name '* '

This will recurse arbitrarily deeply into your directory structure 
starting at directoryName. If you want to limit that, you can use 
the "-maxdepth" option. E.g.:

% find directoryName -maxdepth 2 -name '* '

(Zero is pretty much meaningless—find will look only at the explicitly 
named files or directories whose names precede the selection option 
arguments and even if they're directory names, it won't look inside 
those directories.)


If you're only interested in a single diretory (no recursive traversal 
into nested directories) and if there aren't so many such files that 
the argument list size limit is exceeded, this will do:

% ls *\ 

(There's a space after the backslash.)


> Thanks
> Phil


Randall Schulz
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