Execute commands on folder and files containing spaces
On Linux or Unix systems perform recursively a command on items might contain white space, quote marks, or backslashes can be a problem when using find | xargs combination.
To solve this you may use:
find -type d -print0 | xargs -0 <command> find -type f -print0 | xargs -0 <command>
For example to fix recursively permission:
find -type d -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 755 find -type f -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 644
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