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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Using "find" and "-exec rm" ... Just no luck :( Post 302348226 by methyl on Thursday 27th of August 2009 04:57:14 PM
Old 08-27-2009
Whatever O/S Dean_Rotherham is using should go on the list.

I have seen the problem so many times that I use the quote syntax out of habit (whether or not it is necessary on some O/S). If you are dealing with filenames or other strings which contain space characters just use quotes.

I really am the wrong person to discuss POSIX because I live in the real world and have seen many "standards" come and go.

The quote you supply is wonderfully ambiguous though to my mind it describe all the effects I have seen from all the versions of "find .... -exec" .

Last edited by methyl; 08-27-2009 at 06:03 PM..
 

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uri_urn(n)					    Tcl Uniform Resource Identifier Management						uri_urn(n)

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NAME
uri_urn - URI utilities, URN scheme SYNOPSIS
package require Tcl 8.2 package require uri::urn ?1.1.2? uri::urn::quote url uri::urn::unquote url _________________________________________________________________ DESCRIPTION
This package provides two commands to quote and unquote the disallowed characters for url using the urn scheme, registers the scheme with the package uri, and provides internal helpers which will be automatically used by the commands uri::split and uri::join of package uri to handle urls using the urn scheme. COMMANDS
uri::urn::quote url This command quotes the characters disallowed by the urn scheme (per RFC 2141 sec2.2) in the url and returns the modified url as its result. uri::urn::unquote url This commands performs the reverse of ::uri::urn::quote. It takes an urn url, removes the quoting from all disallowed characters, and returns the modified urls as its result. BUGS, IDEAS, FEEDBACK This document, and the package it describes, will undoubtedly contain bugs and other problems. Please report such in the category uri of the Tcllib SF Trackers [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=12883]. Please also report any ideas for enhancements you may have for either package and/or documentation. KEYWORDS
rfc 2141, uri, url, urn CATEGORY
Networking uri 1.1.2 uri_urn(n)
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