[Gllug] shell quoting problem

[Nix]

On 2 Jul 2008, Alain Williams stated:
> I wanted to find files that had 'John Smith' as part of the name and 'ls' them.
> 	ls -l $(locate 'John Smith')
> Doesn't work since the spaces are interpretted as argument separators - as I expected.

locate -0 "John Smith" | xargs -0r ls -l

(Requires GNU findutils 4.2.4+, which you almost certainly have)
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