Re: How to deal with space in command line?

[Linda Walsh]

Peng Yu wrote:
> Hi,
>
> stat --printf "%y %n\n" `find . -type f -print`
>
> I could use the following trick to stat each file separately. But I
> prefer to stat all the files at once. I'm wondering if there is any
> easy way to converted the strings returned by find if there are
> special characters such as space by adding '\' in front them?
>
> http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/handling-filenames-with-spaces-in-bash.html
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        Does your situation require performing all the stats
in one invocation?

Is there a reason you couldn't use null-terminated filenames?  They
were designed specifically for this purpose (to quote all other characters,
as nulls are illegal in filenames):

        find . -type f -print0 |xargs -0 stat -printf "%y %n\n"