* Gary Johnson <garyjohn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [2004-07-07 10:57 -0700]: > On 2004-07-08, Joshua Crawford <mortarn_lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> * Ionel Mugurel Ciobica <tgakic@xxxxxxxxxxx> [2004-07-07 16:27 +0200]: > >>> And lets face it, space in >>> filename is a windows feature. >> >> This I can't agree with. I, as a Linux user, use spaces myself where >> appropriate, and was doing so on UNIX (SunOS) years before Windows95 was >> released. > > Don't you find that spaces in file names make it difficult to use a > lot of common Unix tools? For example, this will try to execute > grep on each word of each file name containing spaces. > > find . -type f | xargs grep something 'grep -r something *' would do what you're wanting here most of the time (it wouldn't find matches in .subdirectories). For the most part I know where my files are, and I use mc to manipulate them, so this isn't a problem for me. -- Joshua 'bruce' Crawford ... http://www.geocities.com/mortarn Let's do the Time Warp again!
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