On Sat, 2 Aug 2003, Timothy L. Jones wrote:
> > Use `find . -name '*.php'` instead of *.php,
>
> A common problem with backquotes is that sometimes the commands return too
> much data, and causes the shell to say 'too many arguments', and that kills
> the whole loop.
>
> Piping a stream into a 'while read' loop, as in my previous post, does not
> suffer from this size limitation, because there is no attempt to process all
> the data in one shot.
>
> There is a downsize, however. My method exposes to data to shell expansion
> one additional time, and that spells disaster if the filenames contain
> spaces, parenthesis or other shell metacharacters.
If you have the GNU find/xargs, you can use
find ... -print0 | xargs -0 ...
to avoid this. This separates filenames with '\0', one of two illegal
ext2 filename characters, I believe (the other being '/').
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