On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 10:01 +0300, Michael Sternberg wrote:
> I need to perform some task on specific files recusrsively. Problem is
> that directories names can contain spaces. Something like that (in
> /bin/sh) does not works:
>
> for f in `find . -name '*.c*'`; do file $f; done
>
> it choks on directories with spaces..
Try:
find . -name \*.c\* -exec file \{\} \;
(I tested it under /bin/bash on a directory named 'spa ce', and it
worked for me.)
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