[Vm-dev] Spaces in file names (was: renaming dprintf)

Bert Freudenberg bert at freudenbergs.de
Sat Aug 15 23:45:26 UTC 2009


On 16.08.2009, at 01:27, Eliot Miranda wrote:

>> On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 9:34 AM, David T. Lewis  
>> <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > My preference would be to remove spaces from the file names in the
>> > Mac OS subtree.
>>
>> If you are working from a Terminal, try something like this to scan
>> for all C source and header files that contain the string 'foobar':
>>
>> $ find 'Mac OS' -name '*.[ch]' -exec grep -l foobar {} \;
>
> If there are spaces in the filename then you need to put quotes  
> around the file name expansion, i.e.
>
> $ find 'Mac OS' -name '*.[ch]' -exec grep -l foobar "{}" \;

No you don't. This is not expanded by the shell.

- Bert -




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