[lug] "find" question

Daniel Webb lists at danielwebb.us
Tue Aug 17 11:28:26 MDT 2004


On Tue, 17 Aug 2004, Chip Atkinson wrote:

> There is a -print0 (zero) argument to find which is for dealing with the
> space problem.  Maybe that would help you.

-print0 won't help here.  find already sends the \{\} argument as a single
argument to the exec command (spaces and all), so -print0 is only needed
for filenames with \n in them (which would be pretty dumb, if you ask me).

Daniel




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