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Re: recursive globbing, filename spaces and xargs

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From: Stephane Chazelas <Stephane_Chazelas@xxxxxxxx>
To: Philippe Troin <phil@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: recursive globbing, filename spaces and xargs
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 09:05:20 +0000
Cc: William Scott <wgscott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, zsh-users@xxxxxxxxxx
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On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 05:15:49PM -0800, Philippe Troin wrote:
[...]
> > echo **/*  | xargs ls
> > 
> > but if there are spaces, it fails, and I can't seem to figure
> > out how to quote or escape the spaces.
> > 
> > Any suggestions, or should I stick to find?
> 
> print -N **/* | xargs -0 ....

That would still fail for filenames with backslashes or starting
with "-".

print -rN -- **/* | xargs -r0 ls -d --

Or
autoload -U zargs
zargs ./**/* -- ls -d

-- 
Stéphane

References:
- recursive globbing, filename spaces and xargs
  - From: William Scott
- Re: recursive globbing, filename spaces and xargs
  - From: Philippe Troin

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