RE: [Fwd: Re: Rename directory]

[Schrum, Allan (Allan)]

Of course, the original reason for doing "xargs" was that "find -exec" was
slow. Since "find" outputs the filenames as strings, and "sed" is a nice
string editor, an equivalent method might be:

find dir -print | sed -e 's/^/"/' -e 's/$/"/' | xargs

This doesn't use GNU extensions.

-Allan

-----Original Message-----
From: Matt Doar [mailto:address@hidden
Sent: Monday, December 12, 2005 4:50 PM
To: Larry Jones
Cc: address@hidden; Todd Denniston
Subject: RE: [Fwd: Re: Rename directory]


Good point. The specification formerly known as POSIX suggests a
workaround.

"If xargs is used to bundle output of commands like find dir -print or
ls into commands to be executed, unexpected results are likely if any
filenames contain any <blank>s or <newline>s. This can be fixed by using
find to call a script that converts each file found into a quoted string
that is then piped to xargs."

http://www.unix.org/single_unix_specification/

~Matt

-----Original Message-----
From: Larry Jones [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: Monday, December 12, 2005 1:37 PM
To: Matt Doar
Cc: Todd Denniston; Jim Hyslop; address@hidden
Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: Rename directory]

Matt Doar writes:
> 
> find and xargs actually works fine with files and directories with
> spaces in them. 
> You just have to use find -print0 | xargs -0 

Those are non-standard GNU extensions.

-Larry Jones

It's hard to be religious when certain people are never
incinerated by bolts of lightning. -- Calvin


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