Bug 113807

Summary:	find and xargs complain about a missing single quote when none is given
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1	Reporter:	Glen A. Foster <glen.foster>
Component:	findutils	Assignee:	Tim Waugh <twaugh>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Mike McLean <mikem>
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Description Glen A. Foster 2004-01-18 16:50:21 UTC

Description of problem: I just ran across this.  It occurs on RHEL2.1
and RHL 7.2 both, but appears to work correctly on RHEL3.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
# rpm -qf $(which xargs)
findutils-4.1.7-1
# find /home -type f | xargs ls -s
xargs: unmatched single quote

How reproducible: 100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. run the above command on RHEL 2.1

Comment 1 Tim Waugh 2004-01-18 22:09:01 UTC

One of your files has this quote in.

You probably meant to do:

find /home -type f -print0 | xargs -0 ls -s