[ale] decending dirs with spaces in the path

[Geoffrey]

John Wells wrote:
> 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

find $DIR -type f -printf "\"%p\"\n" |xargs grep string

I threw in the '-type f' as you probably only want to grep files, not 
directories.  The key to your problem is the formatted printf.


> 
> 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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