Re: [tlug] How to cope with strange filenames in bash?

["Josh Glover" <jmglov@example.com>]

On 03/07/07, Chris BALUTA <baluta@example.com> wrote:

>     find . -name "*Doremi--Kenichi*" -exec mv {}  k1.rar \;
[...]
>    The {} and the \; are both absolutely needed.

It is probably safer to quote or otherwise escape the {}, e.g.

find . -name "*Doremi--Kenichi*" -exec mv '{}'  k1.rar \;

or

find . -name "*Doremi--Kenichi*" -exec mv \{\}  k1.rar \;


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Cheers,
Josh