[Gllug] shell quoting problem

[Sean Burlington]

Andy Millar wrote:
> Have you tried something like:
> 
> find / -name "*John Smith*"
> 
> And, if you want to ls them, you could:
> 
> ls -l `find / -name "*John Smith*"`
> 

That trips up on the spaces

This works for me

find / -name "*John Smith*" -exec ls -lh {} \;

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Sean Burlington

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