[ale] decending dirs with spaces in the path

John Wells jb at sourceillustrated.com
Fri Jan 17 23:06:31 EST 2003


I have a win4lin directory tree with many dirs/files with spaces in their
paths.

I'd like to search these files for particular strings.  I typically do
this with:

find /somedir -print | xargs grep string

But the spaces give grep a headache.  Is there anyway to surround the
results of find with quotes before piping to xargs?

Thanks!
John




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