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Re: Passing paths with spaces from one command to another
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Mike Frysinger |
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Re: Passing paths with spaces from one command to another |
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Tue, 10 Mar 2009 07:55:59 -0400 |
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On Tuesday 10 March 2009 07:42:29 Angel Tsankov wrote:
> I want to pass the output from one command (e.g. find) to some other
> command so that each path (output by the first command) gets into a
> distinct positional parameter of the second command. How can I do this if
> some paths contain spaces?
use the -print0 option with find and pipe it into xargs with the -0 option
find . -print0 | xargs -0 ls
-mike
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