[Gllug] shell quoting problem

[Paul Thompson]

On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 10:47:13AM +0100, Alain Williams wrote:
> I was just wondering if there was anything simpler and completely obvious that
> I had overlooked ?
> 

Alain,

As Perl doesn't automatically do word-splitting on input lines, this should work:

	locate -r John\ Smith | perl -wnl -e 'print -s , " $_"'

Regards,

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Paul Thompson
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