I'm currently confronted with a cron file that contains a dozen different applications' tasks--some have only one, some have lots. I'm trying to figure out a good way to organize and document these processes. Are there any conventions out there that I could emulate or am I stuck making something up?
One of my common practices is to perform greps on all files of a certain type, e.g., find all the HTML files that have the word "rumpus" in them. To do it, I use
find /path/to -name "*.html" | xargs grep -l "rumpus"
Occasionally, find will return a file with a space in its name such as my new file.html. When xargs passed this to grep, however, I get these errors:
grep: /path/to/bad/file/my: No such file or directory
grep: new: No such file or directory
grep: file.html: No such file or directory
I can see what's going on here: either the pipe or the xargs is treating the spaces as delimiters between files. For the life of me, though, I can't figure out how to prevent this behavior. Can it be done with find + xargs? Or do I have to use an entirely different command?