[CentOS] manipulating files and directories with spaces

Fajar Priyanto

fajarpri at cbn.net.id
Tue Nov 20 23:19:05 UTC 2007


On Wednesday 21 November 2007 01:19:48 Shad L. Lords wrote:
> try:
> find . -type type -print0 | xargs -0 chmod value

Thanks Shad.
That was really cool. Reminds me to reading man pages more often :)
 -print0
              True; print the full file name on the standard output, followed 
by a null character (instead of the newline character that ‘-print’  uses).
              This  allows  file  names that contain newlines or other types 
of white space to be correctly interpreted by programs that process the find
              output.  This option corresponds to the ‘-0’ option of xargs.
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