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From: Ken Hawkins <ken@broadjam.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 15:38:00 -0500
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Subject: ye ol xargs unterminated quote error, thought it was gone?
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when I use the usual:

find . -type f -print | xargs grep -sl foobar

i get;

xargs unterminated quote error and have to use:

find . -type f -print | sed 's/^\(.*\)$//'\1'/' | xargs grep -sl foobar

to quote the output from find. anyone know a more elegant solution?

thoughts?

ken;