Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 15:43:03 +0100 From: Gerhard Sittig <Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Extremely bizarre filename behavior (3.3-RELEASE) Message-ID: <19991221154303.B15372@speedy.gsinet> In-Reply-To: <199912211316.VAA50647@netrinsics.com>; from robinson@netrinsics.com on Tue, Dec 21, 1999 at 09:16:14PM %2B0800 References: <199912211002.SAA50337@netrinsics.com> <199912211316.VAA50647@netrinsics.com>
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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
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