Help - we lost all our files!

Roy Mongiovi roy at prism.gatech.EDU
Sun Jun 30 13:06:36 AEST 1991


In article <3792 at charon.cwi.nl>, dik at cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter) writes:
> due to the way xargs handles its input it is not suitable to process the
> output from find.

I run the output of find through the following sed before piping it to xargs:

	sed -e "/'/s/'/'\\\\''/g" -e "s/^/'/" -e "s/$/'/"

This puts single quotes around each file name, and also handles file names
containing single quotes.  Is this acceptable, or is there a way to defeat
this too?
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