URL:
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Summary: xargs: unmatched single quote
Project: findutils
Submitted by: zurd
Submitted on: Friday 15/10/04 at 01:29
Category: xargs
Severity: 2 - Minor
Item Group: None
Status: Invalid
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
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Open/Closed: Closed
Release: None
Fixed Release: None
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Details:
>From package 4.1.20-r1
Description:
xargs doesn't offer an option to bypass a quote (') when there is one in the
filename or directory.
How-to reproduce :
1) mkdir "test'"
2) ls -1 | xargs -x -i "{}" new_test
Actual results:
xargs: unmatched single quote
What it should do:
Change the directory called test' to new_test
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Follow-up Comments:
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Date: Sunday 20/08/06 at 08:09 By: Feiyun Wang <feiyunw>
I use "sed" and "tr" to walk around this bug:
find -mindepth 2 -type f | sort -S 4M > $$newmd5.file
sed -e "s/^\(.*\)$/\"\1\"/" $$newmd5.file | tr -s \r\n \0 | xargs -0 -r
md5sum >> $$md5sum
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Date: Tuesday 19/04/05 at 11:24 By: Zurd <zurd>
Thanks James for the warning message in xargs about the unmatched single
quote, it's much better now :-)
Helps to debug a command when you have an unmatched single quote and you want
to make it work.
Sorry for the 6 months delay reply, savannah didn't include me by default in
the Carbon Copy list :(
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Date: Friday 22/10/04 at 17:18 By: James Youngman <jay>
If you want to avoid quote processing, use the -0 option. I have updated
the error message in CVS to point this out.
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Date: Friday 15/10/04 at 17:41 By: Bob Proulx <rwp>
The -0, --null option was designed for just these cases. Unfortunately ls is
not the best tool to produce null terminated strings. But 'find' is good
here.
Your 'ls -1' command is roughly equivalent to 'find . -maxdepth 1'. Use
find's -print0 option and xarg's -0 option to protect against unusual file
names.
find . -maxdepth 1 -print0 | xargs -r0
Does this address your issue?
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Date: Friday 15/10/04 at 10:06 By: James Youngman <jay>
Unfortunately this is the way that xargs(1) is supposed to behave. I agree
it's undesirable in many ways, but GNU Findutils' xargs is supposed to be
compatible with other implementations of xargs, which means making it work in
this way.
This bug report will be treated as an enhancement request to provide a way of
solving this problem. Perhaps an option to turn off quote processing and EOF
marker processing.
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