Script to find files with spaces

[Nobody's Hero]

Is there a simple script that can search a filesystem and compile a lit of files that contain spaces? I cant think of a way to do that seeing the unix will stop at the first white space within the filename.

[James R. Ferguson · Accepted solution]

Hi:

You could do:

# cd /path
# find . -type f -name "* *"

Regards!

...JRF...

[Nobody's Hero]

James, Ok, im feeling inadequate here. That was easy.

How does the find command see "* *" as a file name containing spaces?

How did this work?

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi (again):

We quote the string to prevent the shell from expanding the wildcard.

The "* *" says return matches for zero or more characters ('*'), a space, and zero or more characters again. This finds file names of only spaces; file names with leading or trailing spaces; or file names with embedded spaces.

Regards!

...JRF...

[Sundar G]

Hi,
That find command will work. Anything else you expect from the script?