Shell Programming and Scripting

I tried using

Code:

find . -type f -name " "

It works only if there is single space.
what if i want to find only for the files without any name(no space constraint)???

First off, unix filesystems cannot have a filename that is just the nul (ASCII 0) character,
unless the filesystem has been badly corrupted. In other words if you have "noname" files they are probably files that have unprintable characters in the name.

If you think the filesystem has been corrupted, use fsck or a similar tool to check it.

This will find files that have at least one blank (ASCII 32 character ) in the name:

Code:

ls | grep ' '

If you have an all blanks (1 blank ... n blanks) filename the output of ls looks like this:

Code:

$ ls
                     close.csv              myfile.csv            t.lis
7167215.gpx          closest.gpx            np.c                  t.o

Note the "empty" spot.

hey jim

What if i'm in the root directory???

You may want to refer to my blog
Chi Hung Chan: Highlight Those Files With Space, Backslash or Non-Printable Characters

thanks a lot chihung
but one more doubt is...

how can it show me the absolute path of the filename..??
tried using find command...
but it dint help....

Code:

find $PWD -type f -name "* *" -exec ls -dlb {} +

jlliagre

thanks!!!!

but i doubt it will work for special characters!!!
it works only for space.
I did try this only in the beginning.