[Gllug] shell quoting problem

[Stuart Sears]

Andrew Roberts wrote:
> On 02/07/2008, Andy Millar <andy at andymillar.co.uk> wrote:
>>  ls -l `find / -name "*John Smith*"`
>>
>>  I'm not sure if this is any nicer than your current solution.
> 
> It has the same problem with regards to spaces. This might work better:
>   find / -name "*John Smith*" -print0 | xargs -0 ls -l

in which case, why not

find / -name "*John Smith*" -ls

?

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Regards,

Stuart
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