James Youngman wrote:
The program run by xargs is invoked directly with execvp(), and so the
arguments are not processed by the shell at all. This means that
spaces and other special characters in the file names (if they are
file names) are not treated specially at all. For this reason it
should
On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 03:17:06PM -0700, Linda A. W. wrote:
> It would be nice if xargs had an option to enclose the arguments it reads
> in in either double or single quotes before passing them to a program.
>
> This would be especially useful for files with "spaces" in them.
> :-)
The program
On 2005-04-16 "Linda A. W." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It would be nice if xargs had an option to enclose the arguments it reads
> in in either double or single quotes before passing them to a program.
> This would be especially useful for files with "spaces" in them.
> :-)
[...]
Actually it w
Linda A. W. wrote:
> It would be nice if xargs had an option to enclose the arguments it reads
> in in either double or single quotes before passing them to a program.
>
> This would be especially useful for files with "spaces" in them.
> :-)
Trying to quote files with spaces is troublesome. Wha
