find does not work correctly with whitespaces

Lukas Rueegg list2007 at rtpartner.ch
Fri Sep 21 13:43:19 UTC 2007


hi all

i'm using BusyBox v1.1.0 (2007.09.08-10:26+0000) multi-call binary

the command find unfortunately seems to handle files with whitespaces  
in the filename incorrectly as the following example shows:

onion> ls -la
drwxrwxrwx    2 root     root         4096 Sep 21 15:39 .
drwxr-xr-x    9 root     root         4096 Sep 20 14:57 ..
-rwxrwxrwx    1 lru      users        6148 Sep 21 15:22 .DS_Store
-rwxrwxrwx    1 lru      users          82 Sep 21 15:22 ._test.html
-rwxrwxrwx    1 samo     users   840050688 Jun 27 16:18 300 -  
ForumMasti.com.avi
-rwxrwxrwx    1 samo     users   679016448 Mar  4  2007 Romance And  
Cigarettes.avi
-rwxrwxrwx    1 lru      users       40874 Sep 21 15:22 httpd.conf
-rwxrwxrwx    1 lru      users         623 Sep 21 15:22 test.html
onion> find . -exec touch '{}' \;
onion> ls -la
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root            0 Sep 21 15:40 -
drwxrwxrwx    2 root     root         4096 Sep 21 15:40 .
drwxr-xr-x    9 root     root         4096 Sep 20 14:57 ..
-rwxrwxrwx    1 lru      users        6148 Sep 21 15:40 .DS_Store
-rwxrwxrwx    1 lru      users          82 Sep 21 15:40 ._test.html
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root            0 Sep 21 15:40 300
-rwxrwxrwx    1 samo     users   840050688 Jun 27 16:18 300 -  
ForumMasti.com.avi
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root            0 Sep 21 15:40 And
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root            0 Sep 21 15:40 Cigarettes.avi
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root            0 Sep 21 15:40  
ForumMasti.com.avi
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root            0 Sep 21 15:40 Romance
-rwxrwxrwx    1 samo     users   679016448 Mar  4  2007 Romance And  
Cigarettes.avi
-rwxrwxrwx    1 lru      users       40874 Sep 21 15:40 httpd.conf
-rwxrwxrwx    1 lru      users         623 Sep 21 15:40 test.html

as you see, there are new files created, instead of updating the  
existing files with whitespaces in the filename ...

does anybody know a workaround to this problem or is this a bug?

thanks for any informations and best regards
lukas.




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