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# 1  
Old 09-29-2009
find the folder with space in name.
A solaris server with SAMBA share folder. The PC users created many folders with space on it, I want to find them out, but not list its subfolders.

For example, I have below folders

Code:
Copy of ABC/efg/xy
sa/Test again/xyt

If I use command:
Code:
find . -type d |grep " "

I will list 6 folders, but I just want to list folders:

Code:
Copy of ABC
sa/Test again

# 2  
Old 09-29-2009
Dont use "find". The below should work.
Code:
ls -1 | egrep " "

# 3  
Old 09-30-2009
This should do that magic !
Code:
find -iname "* *"

@editaguy
It wont work in the nested directory structure !! Haven't noticed that ?!
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