how to use find with space charracters?

[benjibasson]

Hi
I would like to stamp sur la first page on every PDF in a folder ( 200 files with spaces)
I have created my stamp on wight A4 PDF with gimp
then do an single succesfull try

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qpdf ./a.pdf --underlay sign.pdf -- ./c.pdf 

I try to launch the script to repeat for every PDF

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find ./ -name '*.pdf' -execdir bash -c 'qpdf $0 --underlay /home/guest/sign.pdf -- ${0/.pdf/-signe.pdf}' {} \;

unfortunaly it fails because find ./ -name don't work with space caracter

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find ./ -name '*.pdf' -execdir bash -c 'qpdf $0 --underlay /home/guest/sign.pdf -- ${0/.pdf/-signe.pdf}' {} \;

qpdf: unknown argument the

Usage: qpdf [options] {infile | --empty} [page_selection_options] outfile
For detailed help, run qpdf --help


qpdf: unknown argument little

Usage: qpdf [options] {infile | --empty} [page_selection_options] outfile
For detailed help, run qpdf --help


qpdf: unknown argument house

...

If I do

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find ./ -name '*.pdf' -execdir bash -c 'qpdf $0 --underlay /home/guest/sign.pdf -- ${0/.pdf/-signe.pdf}' _ {} \;

I got

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open _: No such file or directory
open _: No such file or directory
open _: No such file or directory
open _: No such file or directory
open _: No such file or directory
open _: No such file or directory
open _: No such file or directory
open _: No such file or directory
open _: No such file or directory
open _: No such file or directory
open _: No such file or directory
open _: No such file or directory
open _: No such file or directory
open _: No such file or directory

When I do

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find ./ -name '*.pdf' -execdir bash -c 'echo $0' {} \;

I get the accurate list

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find ./ -name '*.pdf' -execdir bash -c 'echo $0' {} \;
./01042023 RAPPORT 1.pdf
./01042023 Rapport 2.pdf
./01042023 rapport 3.pdf

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What is the syntax for find for space charracters please

Cheers

[ncmprhnsbl]

looks like to me that find is ok with the spaces but qpdf isn't.
maybe try double quoting find's output:

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find ./ -name '*.pdf' -execdir bash -c 'qpdf "$0" --underlay /home/guest/sign.pdf -- "${0/.pdf/-signe.pdf}"' _ {} \;

[Ed_P]

I have found a ? works for files in My?Files folder.

[Vic]

I hate spaces and anything that is not a . <period> or - <hyphen> or _ <underscore> . I remove the stuff whenever possible.

I found this post on CommandLineFu website and it works for me. No clue how, though.

https://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/ ... ctory-tree.

and this too ...

https://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/ ... nderscores

Maybe they will make things easier but use at your own risk.

Vic