Re: shell or fileutils commands and whitespaced filenames

[Bob McGowan <bob_mcgowan@symantec.com>]

Michael wrote:
> thx Bob. (Is there any list you're not subscribed :)
>
> Using 'null' is slightly shorter than my 'sed' command...but somehow 
> i can't help it's still not really straight enough. Doing complicated things 
> just to have quite common formatted filenames handled, is so *uncool* 
> for a modern shell !
>   
Could you supply a reference for this "modern shell" you're referring 
to?  I don't know of any shell (UNIX, Linux or MS Windows) that doesn't 
require some form of quoting in order to handle white space in file names.

Thanks.

Bob
> If there's really no other way, then do you know of a different shell can 
> maintain whitespace names just automatically ? I'd even move to csh if 
> i knew it works better there.
>
>
> --micha
>
>
> bob@proulx.com (Bob Proulx):
>   
> > Try using find and xargs.  Here are some examples.
> >   find . -print0 | xargs -r0 chmod a+rX
> >     
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