Re: manipulating files and directories with spaces

["William L. Maltby" <CentOS4Bill@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2007-11-21 at 05:24 -0500, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-11-21 at 04:39 -0500, William L. Maltby wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-11-21 at 10:04 +0100, Ralph Angenendt wrote:
> > > find . -type f -exec chmod 123 {} +
> > 
> > Easier to type and more natural (for me). But less efficient than the
> > xargs version since each file cause a new process to be spawned.
> 
> Wrong. + causes find to append as many items as possible.

Good grief! Learn something new every day. I guess I need to RTFM again
every few years to see what's changed.  :-P


> <snip sig stuff>

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Bill

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