[ale] command fails thru xargs but succeeds from shell prompt

[Tim Watts]

Indeed, -print0/-0 worked great. Thanks again Mark.

On Sat, 2011-01-29 at 16:01 -0500, Tim Watts wrote:
> Yeah, I tried it w/o the 2nd quotes but it complained when some of the
> dirs had spaces in them. However, that -print0 would probably work.
> Would be more elegant than the sh -c kludge I settled on. I'll try that
> on a 2nd batch. Thanks.
> 
> 
> On Sat, 2011-01-29 at 15:43 -0500, Mark Heiges wrote:
> > You're double quoting - in the printf and again for the mv. Try this
> > 
> >   find Video/* -maxdepth 0 -type d -printf "\"%p\"\n" | xargs -tn1 - 
> > I"{}" mv -v {} /alt/video/
> > 
> > or use find's --print0 with xarg's -0 options.
> > 
> >   find Video/* -maxdepth 0 -type d -print0  | xargs -0 -tn1 -I"{}" mv - 
> > v {} /alt/video/
> > 
> > 
> > On Jan 29, 2011, at 3:24 PM, Tim Watts wrote:
> > 
> > > I'm trying to move some files. When I try it using xargs it fails but
> > > when I try the exact same command at the shell prompt that xargs  
> > > echoes
> > > it succeeds.
> > >
> > > Here's the command:
> > >
> > > $ find Video/* -maxdepth 0 -type d -printf "\"%p\"\n" | xargs -tn1
> > > -I"{}" mv -v \"{}\" /alt/video/
> > >
> > > Here's what happens when I run it:
> > >
> > > mv -v "Video/Weeds - Season 1" /alt/video/
> > > mv: cannot stat `"Video/Weeds - Season 1"': No such file or directory
> > > ...
> > >
> > > But when I just run the mv command it succeeds. What's going on here?
> > >
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