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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!lucy.swin.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!portc01.blue.aol.com!newsxfer3.itd.umich.edu!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Daily security check output Date: 2 Jan 1997 22:27:49 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 26 Message-ID: <5ahcp5$aqp@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <32CBD890.41C67EA6@visint.co.uk> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33469 Steve Roome <steve@visint.co.uk> wrote: > find: > /usr/home/steve/autosaves/#\!usr\!home\!steve\!gtb\!source\!nlist.c#: > illegal path > I beleive that the find in /etc/security isn't working as expected, > i.e. it's one of the listed bugs for find. The problem is not find itself, but xargs: it uses spaces as separators between the various filenames to pass them on to ls(1). Now that find understands -print0, it should probably turned to use this. Also, add the option -0 (minus null) to the call to xargs. j@uriah 849% touch ~/tmp/foo\ bar\ mumble ~/tmp/foo\ #mumpl\ fritz j@uriah 850% find ~/tmp -name 'foo*' -print0 | xargs -0 ls -l -rw-r--r-- 1 j other 0 Jan 2 23:26 /home/joerg/tmp/foo #mumpl fritz -rw-r--r-- 1 j other 0 Jan 2 23:26 /home/joerg/tmp/foo bar mumble -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)