[Gllug] shell quoting problem

[Andy Millar]

Have you tried something like:

find / -name "*John Smith*"

And, if you want to ls them, you could:

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

I'm not sure if this is any nicer than your current solution.

- Andy

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