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Merge pull request #350 from uggla/whitespaces

Add instructions to manage filenames with whitespaces
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Joshua Levy 9 years ago
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cat hosts | xargs -I{} ssh root@{} hostname
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- Prefer the `-0` or `-print0` options to enable null characters to delimit filenames. This better supports filenames with whitespace.Example : `locate -0 pattern | xargs -0 ls -al` or `find / -print0 -type d | xargs -0 ls -al`. To iterate on filenames containing whitespace in a for loop, set your IFS to only '\n' using `IFS=$'\n'`. Always surround your bash variables with `"`.
- `pstree -p` is a helpful display of the process tree.
- Use `pgrep` and `pkill` to find or signal processes by name (`-f` is helpful).

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