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1. Bradley M. Kuhn

   #bash handles spaces in file names well enough that I often forget how much old school Unix-ish utilities like #xargs hate it so much.

   Thursday, 20-Nov-08 21:05:04 UTC from web
   • Jeff McAdams

     @bkuhn single quotes are your friend

     Thursday, 20-Nov-08 21:09:20 UTC
   • Bradley M. Kuhn Jeff McAdams

     @jmca, re: single quotes to solve 'space in file names' problems: what about find <stuff> -print | xargs ... that's where I hit it often.

     Thursday, 20-Nov-08 22:28:00 UTC
   • Jason Riedy

     @bkuhn: See -print0 for find and -0 for xargs.

     Thursday, 20-Nov-08 22:29:14 UTC
   • Paul Visscher

     @bkuhn find <stuff> -print0 | xargs -0

     Thursday, 20-Nov-08 22:45:28 UTC
   • Paul Visscher

     @bkuhn web interface is easy (go to a different URL, or have a greasemonkey script that rewrites the URL twitter's POSTs to). SMS is harder.

     Thursday, 20-Nov-08 22:46:51 UTC
   • Bradley M. Kuhn Jason Riedy , Paul Visscher

     @paulv, @jasonriedy, I've oversimplified problem so as to make it trivial. find, xargs are buried in diff'nt open()'s inside a Perl script.

     Thursday, 20-Nov-08 23:21:22 UTC
   • Bradley M. Kuhn keever , Paul Visscher

     @paulv, you think @keever will let me mess with her web browser merely to solve this? I fear global FAIL due to bugs in my greasemonkey code

     Thursday, 20-Nov-08 23:23:29 UTC