Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:31:25 -0700 From: Christopher Cowart <ccowart@rescomp.berkeley.edu> To: Simon Gao <gao@schrodinger.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: file/directory names with space in between Message-ID: <20080414233125.GF70456@hal.rescomp.berkeley.edu> In-Reply-To: <4803E7D4.7080003@schrodinger.com> References: <4803E7D4.7080003@schrodinger.com>
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Simon Gao wrote:
> I need to work on some files and directories that have spaces in them lik=
e:
>=20
> interesting story\2008 March\{story one,story two}.
>=20
> When using find with -exec, part of the file/directory name will be missi=
ng=20
> and therefore lead to error.
>=20
> What should I do to put escape key in there to include full names?
$ echo foo > "test 1"
$ find . -type f -exec cat {} \;
foo
Looks like it Just Works(tm), no quoting necessary. Could you provide
the actually command you're running that isn't doing what you expect?
--=20
Chris Cowart
Network Technical Lead
Network & Infrastructure Services, RSSP-IT
UC Berkeley
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