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Date:      Thu, 24 Oct 1996 08:21:19 -0600
From:      "Mark O'Lear" <Mark.Olear@Colorado.EDU>
To:        "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@freefall.freebsd.org>
Cc:        angio@aros.net, freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: misc/1335
Message-ID:  <326F7B5F.757D@Colorado.EDU>
References:  <199610230413.VAA01730@freefall.freebsd.org>

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Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> 
> Synopsis: /etc/security generates an error with files with spaces.
> 
> State-Changed-From-To: open-feedback
> State-Changed-By: scrappy
> State-Changed-When: Tue Oct 22 21:12:07 PDT 1996
> State-Changed-Why:
> 
> I've noticed this problem as well, with some files on my system.  Its
> annoying, but is it fixable?

It's because of the -X option of find (which tells find to
complain if the file has a space, ", or ' in it, because
it is passing the results back to xargs).  It would be nice
if find had another flag that would return a file name
with ' marks around the file name or a \ before the "bad" 
character instead of just complaining about it.
-- 
Mark O'Lear             \    e-mail: Mark.Olear@Colorado.EDU
University of Colorado   \   phone:  (303) 492-3798
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