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On 4 Mar 2004 at 13:09, Jonathan Stowe wrote: > So how long has samba been around, how long has Windows had long > filenames and encourage people to create files with spaces in (yeah, > yeah I know but that is a totally different piece of hate.) Before Windows 95 and long filenames were around, it was the Macintosh people creating filenames with spaces... (I remember guidelines for some software which included something along the lines of "no steenking spaces in filenames", though I can't remember offhand what it was, and that bit of advice was followed by something like "Macintosh users, laugh all you want".) > Then why do the stupid poxy findutils not make any allowance for this Hysterical raisins? > [jonathan@orpheus Documentation]$ find . -type d | xargs chmod go+rx > chmod: failed to get attributes of `./Database': No such file or > directory > chmod: failed to get attributes of `Schema': No such file or directory > chmod: failed to get attributes of `./Document': No such file or > directory > chmod: failed to get attributes of `System': No such file or directory > chmod: failed to get attributes of `./ID': No such file or directory > chmod: failed to get attributes of `generation': No such file or > directory > chmod: failed to get attributes of `./SCP': No such file or directory > chmod: failed to get attributes of `SDK': No such file or directory > > and so forth. Oh yes I know there are ways to get around this. With GNU fileutils, yes (-print0 and -0 go a long way). With the standard 'find' and 'xargs', it becomes more Interesting, in the Chinese sense of the word. Yay. Philip -- Philip Newton <pnewton@xxx.xx>
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