[Gllug] shell quoting problem

[Alain Williams]

On Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 04:14:50PM +0100, Nix wrote:
> 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

'-0' is new for locate ... on the machine that I was doing this on, not on the
one in front of me ... guess where I used the 'man' command :-)

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