On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Tim Newsham <newsham@lava.net> wrote:

It is suggested to use
du -a | awk '{print $2}'
instead of find. But what if filename contains spaces? For example if
file is named "foo bar" then awk will output "foo" only.

What about

du -a | sed 's/^[0-9]*<tab>//g'

no loss on spaces in filenames.
no loss on tabs in filenames.

Tim Newsham | www.thenewsh.com/~newsham | thenewsh.blogspot.com