[COLUG] shell scripting question

[Jim P]

Jess Balint <dollzerr at iwaynet.net> wrote:

> I'm surprised nobody mentioned xargs. It's reduces all this stuff to 
> just a single pipe:
> 
> ls -tr | xargs echo

xargs doesn't address the issue that Tom was asking about, 
which was about the spaces in filenames being treated as 
delimiters for arguments.  

I.e., with a filename like "Peter Gabriel - solsbury hill.mp3", 

try 

   ls -tr | xargs ls

then try 

   ls -tr --quoting-style=shell | xargs ls

Citing echo, hides the problem.