Wow, this is so completely OT I like it... On Wednesday, 2004-02-18 at 13:58:59 +0100, Ivan Brezina wrote:
> hmm, xargs does not use quotes when executing commands. This causes > problems with dirs with spaces in name. > If user has directory named "dummy root", he can easily get accsess to > /root directory. That's why GNU find and xargs have the options -print0 and -0, respectively. Names in Unixish filesystems can't have NULs in them. Stoopid(tm) example: find "foo bar" -print0 | xargs -0 ls -ld There, I made the thread even more offtopic! :-O HTH, Lupe Christoph -- | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.lupe-christoph.de/ | | "Violence is the resort of the violent" Lu Tze | | "Thief of Time", Terry Pratchett |
