[Gllug] batch convert

[Doug Winter]

On Wed 29 Jan Jonathan Harker wrote:
> I have tried this in the past, and it is fine if your filenames do not contain 
> spaces. If you're a fickle sort like me, and some of your 10000 odd songs 
> have spaces in the filename, how can one get the above scripts to work?

$ find foo -print0 | xargs -0 command

this will put the list of files found in foo, and place them as
arguments to command, using an ascii \0 instead of whitespace as a
delimiter.

this will only work for commands that take multiple files on their
command line however.

doug.

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