Re: How to escape "find" result

[Leo Breebaart <leo@lspace.org>]

Try KDE <trykde@rogers.com> writes:

> I'm trying to run the following script:
>    for f in $(find . -name "*.txt"); do cmd1;cmd2;cmd3; done
> ,where cmd1, cmd2 and cmd3 are arbiturary commands. The problem is, if 
> the found file names contain a space , for example "part1 part2.txt" 
> will be interpreted as "part1" and "part2.txt". I'm thinkin an esacping 
> tool may be able turn it into "part1\ part2.txt" before passing it to 
> "for" loop. Any thought?

Put your commands in a script, use find's "-print0" option to serve up
the results seperated by '\0' characters (rather than whitespace), pipe
these results to xargs to have your script applied to each result, and
use xargs's "-0" option to have it read its arguments separated by '\0'
(rather than whitespace):

  find . -name "*.txt" -print0 | xargs -r0 wc

will apply 'wc' to every text file find finds, and whitespace in the
filename is no problem.

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Leo Breebaart  <leo@lspace.org>