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[ILUG] Piping to mv

[ILUG] Piping to mv

Stephen_Reilly at dell.com Stephen_Reilly at dell.com
Wed Jun 19 11:50:47 IST 2002


>Be careful with xargs, if a filename contain spaces (or any other special 
>characters), they won't be escaped and your command line could end up 
>being something very nasty indeed.
you just have to be careful what you pipe into it. E.g. use -print0 with the
find command and look for this with -0 in the xargs arguments (use of things
like -r are also heartily recomended)... Either way if you're intellegent
about how you use it, xargs can be quite encompassing.

>Martin.

steve





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