On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 09:41:12AM -0700, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> i tried using
>
> find /data/MP3 | xargs chgrp audio
>
> to change the group of all my mp3's. xargs was getting tripped up by
> filenames with single quotes. of course, i was able to get the group
> changed with
>
> find /data/MP3 -exec chgrp audio \{} \;
find /data/MP3 -print0 | xargs -0 chgrp audio
[...]
> but i'm curious whether i could've made xargs work.
> is there a way to make xargs work on a group of filenames which may contain
> single quotes?
Null seperation.
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