Bash script for files with spaces in the filenames

[Steven W. Orr]

On Thursday, Feb 16th 2006 at 19:54 +0800, quoth John Summerfied:

=>Tim Fenn wrote:
=>> On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 11:29:04AM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
=>> 
=>> > Another friend has provided me with a simple bash script that performs
=>> > an operation on all the files of a directory. However, many of the
=>> > file names contain spaces. How can I modify the following code to work
=>> > on files with spaces? The directory is on a mounted FAT32 partition.
=>> > 
=>> 
=>> 
=>> xargs, yo!
=>> 
=>> find $(pwd) -name "*.mp3" -print0 | xargs -0 eyeD3 --force-update
=>> --set-encoding=utf8
=>
=>man xargs for the scoop, sometimes you want to run your eyeD3 with just one
=>filename.
=>
=>This works too:
=>find . -type f -name "*.mp3" \
=>   -exec eyeD3 --force-update --set-encoding=utf8 {} \;
=>
=>man find for more.
=>
=>Note that the original script will also fail if the length of the commandline
=>generated is too great. Just for laughs:
=>echo $(find / -type f) 2>/dev/null

or just say

find | xargs -n 1

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