Re: How to deal with space in command line?

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Sat, 18 Sep 2010, Peng Yu wrote:

> stat --printf "%y %n\n" `find . -type f -print`
>
> I could use the following trick to stat each file separately. But I
> prefer to stat all the files at once. I'm wondering if there is any
> easy way to converted the strings returned by find if there are
> special characters such as space by adding '\' in front them?

   This will supply as many files as possible as arguments to stat:

find . -type f -exec stat --printf "%y %n\n" +

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