RE: How to handle whitespace in filenames ???

["Mike Kuhar" <mikek147@mediaone.net>]

How about:

find /etc -name pump\* -print

The \* supplies the wild card pump to find.  So any instance of pump and what
follows is listed.  To find the instance of the file 'pump it' in /etc of any of
it sub-directories.

find /etc -name pump\* -print | grep 'pump it'


Michael W. Kuhar
* mailto:Mikek147@mediaone.net



-----Original Message-----
From: Michael D. Schleif [mailto:mds@helices.org]
Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2001 1:58 PM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Cc: Debian Users List Service
Subject: Re: How to handle whitespace in filenames ???



Ken Irving wrote:
>
> On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 12:26:05PM -0600, Michael D. Schleif wrote:
> >
> > More and more, *nix developers are following the dark path of using
> > whitespace in directory and filenames -- something which I've always
> > detested, from an sa standpoint ;<
> >
> > For example, on my upgraded potato box I may want to do something this
> > simple:
> >
> >       grep pump `find /etc/ -type f`
> >
> > ...
> >
> > How do others handle this?
>
> The -exec option under find should't care what the name looks like:
>
>     $ find /etc/ -type f -exec -H pump {} \;

Of course, you meant this:

	find /etc/ -type f -exec grep -H pump {} \;

OK, this is workable in my example find/grep example.  I'll have to
think on this for the general case.

Thank you.

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