On 03/05/2015 12:08 AM, Morgan Weetman wrote:
>> The best I could think of is to avoid the extra shell, and to directly
>> invoke /usr/bin/test instead:
>>
>> $ find . -type d -exec test -f '{}'/.export \; -print
>>
>> This will work for both, directory names with '"' and with '\'' in their
>> n
- Original Message -
> From: "Bernhard Voelker"
> To: "Morgan Weetman" , "Peng Yu"
> Cc: bug-findutils@gnu.org
> Sent: Thursday, 5 March, 2015 9:39:52 AM
> Subject: Re: How test for directory with single quote (') in the name (with
> find)?
>
> On 03/04/2015 11:17 PM, Morgan Weetman
On 03/04/2015 11:17 PM, Morgan Weetman wrote:
> The example below has assumed that you wanted to test that .export was a file:
>
> find . -type d -exec sh -c "test -f \"{}\"/.export" \; -print
>
> .. works for me on 4.5.11
Well, the problem is when now a directory has a double quote '"' in its n
- Original Message -
> From: "Peng Yu"
> To: bug-findutils@gnu.org
> Sent: Thursday, 5 March, 2015 2:16:55 AM
> Subject: How test for directory with single quote (') in the name (with find)?
>
> Hi,
>
> The following code shows that if a directory has single quote in the
> name, it does
Hi,
The following code shows that if a directory has single quote in the
name, it does not work. Does anybody know what the correct way is to
use -exec to test when there is single quote in the command? Thanks.
/tmp/tryfind$ find . -type f
./'/.export
/tmp/tryfind$ find . -type d -exec sh -c "tes
