[Linux-disciples] xargs -0

[Stephen R Laniel]

On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 02:54:42PM -0400, Adam Rosi-Kessel wrote:
> grep -Zirl [pattern] [sourcePath] |
>                      tr "\n" "\0" |
>       xargs -0i cp "{}" [destPath]

The trouble with that is: what if the file contains
apostrophes or quotes? Then the '{}' thing will break. E.g.,

(16:03) slaniel at inwalkedbud:~/testdir$ grep -Zirl stuff .  |tr '\0' '\n' |xargs -0i cp '{}' ..
cp: cannot stat `./file\'s name contains "" (quotes)\n./file\'s name contains apostrophe\n': No such file or directory

whereas

grep -Zirl stuff . |xargs -0 mv --target-directory=/home/slaniel

works fine.

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