spaces in output command

[festhead]

hi,

i want to use the output of locate (or find) in a program.

the problem i have is that the output is like this

$locate example

/home/user/example with spaces

which cannot be used (because it links to /home/user/example)


so is there a way to get this output:

/home/user/example\ with\ spaces

??

thx!

[festhead]

ps: renaming all files is not an option

[xDan89]

I don't really know what you need it for but normally it should fix it by setting the variable under quotes("")

Beside with find you could use -exec that should be a very simple and much more efficient way of locating files and doing some commands on it.

[festhead]

building program to play songs in xmms that are selected by locate

the qoutes work!!
thx!