On Tuesday 9 June 2009, 16:52, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Jun 2009 09:42:34 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote:
> > -exec command {} +
> > This variant of the -exec action runs the specified command on the
> > selected files, but the command line is built by appending each
> > selected file name at the end; the total number of invocations of
> > the command will be much less than the number of matched files. The
> > command line is built in much the same way that xargs builds its
> > command lines. Only one instance of `{}' is allowed within the
> > command. The command is executed in the starting directory.
>
> How does this handle quoted filenames?
>
> Does -exec command "{}" +
>
> do
>
> command "file 1 file 2 file 3"
>
> or
>
> command "file 1" "file 2" "file 3"
The latter.
