Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <416C5D3C.1D4C440@dessent.net> Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 15:39:56 -0700 From: Brian Dessent Organization: My own little world... MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "cygwin@cygwin.com" Subject: Re: problem with find/grep References: <0I5H00EZWDWZK8@pmismtp01.mcilink.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mark Paulus wrote: > > Another issue I've run into with find, but typically when I pipe > it to xargs is that directories/files with spaces in the names cause > all kind of disruption. Add "-print0" to your find arguments and "-0" to your xargs arguments and that problem will disappear. Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/