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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Command for total number of files (and size) across subdirectories? Post 302552022 by Beun on Thursday 1st of September 2011 10:57:43 AM
Old 09-01-2011
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Originally Posted by Corona688
xargs is telling you what's wrong. You have filenames with spaces, ', and other such nasties in them which are confusing it. It splits on spaces by default.
I see...

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There may be ways around this if we had any idea what your system was -- but we don't.
Does this help?
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.5 (Tikanga)

 

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