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Re: recursive globbing, filename spaces and xargs

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From: Philippe Troin <phil@xxxxxxxx>
To: William Scott <wgscott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: recursive globbing, filename spaces and xargs
Date: 17 Jan 2005 17:15:49 -0800
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William Scott <wgscott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Hi:
> 
> One of the things that I haven't been able to figure
> out is how to deal with the error one gets when using
> 
> ls **/*
> 
> on a well-populated directory with lots of subdirectories.
> 
> zsh: argument list too long
> 
> If I do this when there are no filename spaces, it works:
> 
> 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 ....

Phil.

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