From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Dec 21 12:17: 6 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.gmx.net (mail2.gmx.net [194.221.183.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 802D515511 for ; Tue, 21 Dec 1999 12:17:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net) Received: (qmail 28031 invoked by uid 0); 21 Dec 1999 20:16:51 -0000 Received: from p3e9e7a7f.dip.t-dialin.net (HELO speedy.gsinet) (62.158.122.127) by mail2.gmx.net with SMTP; 21 Dec 1999 20:16:51 -0000 Received: (from sittig@localhost) by speedy.gsinet (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA16745 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Tue, 21 Dec 1999 15:43:04 +0100 Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 15:43:03 +0100 From: Gerhard Sittig To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Extremely bizarre filename behavior (3.3-RELEASE) Message-ID: <19991221154303.B15372@speedy.gsinet> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <199912211002.SAA50337@netrinsics.com> <199912211316.VAA50647@netrinsics.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <199912211316.VAA50647@netrinsics.com>; from robinson@netrinsics.com on Tue, Dec 21, 1999 at 09:16:14PM +0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Dec 21, 1999 at 21:16 +0800, Michael Robinson wrote: > > Terminating spaces were leaking in from Windows users through > Samba. It never occurred to me that sending filenames through > a pipe from "find" to "xargs" (how I discovered the problem) > will strip whitespace from filenames. It seems good habit (unless someone can explain me otherwise :) to do something like find $DIRS $OPTS -print0 | xargs --null $CMD which helps against this sort of thing. virtually yours - Gerhard Sittig -- mail -s "get pgp key" Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net < /dev/null If you don't understand or are scared by any of the above ask your parents or an adult to help you. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message