Re: Help! File permissions keep changing...
Wow, this is so completely OT I like it...
On Wednesday, 2004-02-18 at 13:58:59 +0100, Ivan Brezina wrote:
> hmm, xargs does not use quotes when executing commands. This causes
> problems with dirs with spaces in name.
> If user has directory named "dummy root", he can easily get accsess to
> /root directory.
That's why GNU find and xargs have the options -print0 and -0,
respectively. Names in Unixish filesystems can't have NULs in them.
Stoopid(tm) example:
find "foo bar" -print0 | xargs -0 ls -ld
There, I made the thread even more offtopic! :-O
HTH,
Lupe Christoph
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