[Gllug] shell quoting problem

[Alain Williams]

On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 10:51:05AM +0100, 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*"`

* locate (essentially) does the same job as 'find /' but is much faster.
* `command` is the same as $(command)
* your solution has the same space problem.

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

My solution works.

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