[CentOS] manipulating files and directories with spaces

[Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams]

On Wed, 2007-11-21 at 04:39 -0500, William L. Maltby wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-11-21 at 10:04 +0100, Ralph Angenendt wrote:
> > find . -type f -exec chmod 123 {} +
> 
> Easier to type and more natural (for me). But less efficient than the
> xargs version since each file cause a new process to be spawned.

Wrong. + causes find to append as many items as possible.

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Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazqueznet at gmail.com>

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