in reply to Re: Help with script to search all files for certain words.
in thread Help with script to search all files for certain words.

find blah blah blah | xargs grep -i --fixed-strings --file=words.dat

Change that to ...

find blah blah blah -print0 | xargs -0 grep -i --fixed-strings --file= +words.dat

... and problems with "funny" filenames are gone.

Alexander

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