file/directory names with space in between

[Christopher Cowart]

Simon Gao wrote:
> I need to work on some files and directories that have spaces in them like:
> 
> interesting story\2008 March\{story one,story two}.
> 
> When using find with -exec, part of the file/directory name will be missing 
> and therefore lead to error.
> 
> What should I do to put escape key in there to include full names?

$ echo foo > "test 1"
$ find . -type f -exec cat {} \;
foo

Looks like it Just Works(tm), no quoting necessary. Could you provide
the actually command you're running that isn't doing what you expect?

-- 
Chris Cowart
Network Technical Lead
Network & Infrastructure Services, RSSP-IT
UC Berkeley
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