[Gllug] shell quoting problem

[Andrew Roberts]

On 02/07/2008, Andy Millar <andy at andymillar.co.uk> wrote:
>  ls -l `find / -name "*John Smith*"`
>
>  I'm not sure if this is any nicer than your current solution.

It has the same problem with regards to spaces. This might work better:
  find / -name "*John Smith*" -print0 | xargs -0 ls -l

Regards,
Andrew.
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