Spaces (and other characters) in filenames

[Gustav H Meyer]

Hi Dotan,

On 23/08/2006 19:31, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> Specifically, interacting with files through bash. I see that
> I've asked quite a few questions on the subject in the past.

What do you mean when you say interacting with files through bash? 
What are you trying to do?

Most of the times there's no need to write a new script. For 
example: Have you ever seen the power of the find command combined 
with xargs?

$ find . -type f -print0 |xargs -0 grep -li "mystring"

The above mentioned command will find all files (including those 
with spaces) starting in the current directory and return only those 
that contain the word "mystring" (no matter the case).

If you are serious about manipulating files you may want to consider 
something like perl.

See also: $ man find2perl

Regards,
Gustav