CentOS - Nov 2007 - manipulating files and directories with spaces

Hi,
    This might be a little O.t. so private responses please.
    I've got apache and samba running on a CentOS5 box enabling windows 
users to add web content. My issue is i've had to restore some backup data 
that was previously archived. The permissions aren't matching up so i'm 
wanting to use find and xargs to change them appropriately. Normally i do:
find . -type type |xargs chmod value "{}"\;
which usually works. My issue is the files were made with spaces so find 
isn't able to find them. Does anyone have a workaround? Some urgency!
Thanks.
Dave.

> Hi,
>    This might be a little O.t. so private responses please.
>    I've got apache and samba running on a CentOS5 box enabling windows 
> users to add web content. My issue is i've had to restore some backup
data
> that was previously archived. The permissions aren't matching up so
i'm
> wanting to use find and xargs to change them appropriately. Normally i do:
> find . -type type |xargs chmod value "{}"\;
> which usually works. My issue is the files were made with spaces so find 
> isn't able to find them. Does anyone have a workaround? Some urgency!
try:

find . -type type -print0 | xargs -0 chmod value

-Shad

--On Tuesday, November 20, 2007 1:14 PM -0500 Dave <dmehler26 at
woh.rr.com>
wrote:
> My issue is the files were made with spaces so find isn't able to find
> them.
Good to know about the -print0 trick.

My rule of thumb is that when I see a space in a filename, that's a clue 
that a directory is likely needed to group content together. Not 
necessarily true for end users, but almost always true in my programming 
work. Just as spaces provide semantic boundaries in natural language, 
directory separators provide such boundaries in filesystem organization.

For example, instead of creating a folder named "my company's photos
for
2007", I'd create "Company/Photos/2007".

My office is a mess, but my disk stays highly organized. ;)