On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 12:26:05PM -0600, Michael D. Schleif wrote:
>
> More and more, *nix developers are following the dark path of using
> whitespace in directory and filenames -- something which I've always
> detested, from an sa standpoint ;<
>
> For example, on my upgraded potato box I may want to do something this
> simple:
>
> grep pump `find /etc/ -type f`
>
> ...
>
> How do others handle this?
The -exec option under find should't care what the name looks like:
$ find /etc/ -type f -exec -H pump {} \;
The -H option to grep is needed since grep is run on a single file,
so doesn't report the name by default.
--
Ken Irving <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
