Tip #141 Process files whose names may contain spaces
If the names of some of the files in a directory may contain spaces, combine find's "-print0" option with xargs' "-0" option:# this will behave incorrectly if some files or directories have spaces:
find . -type f | xargs ls -l
# this will work correctly:
find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 ls -l
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