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Problem caused by apostrophe’s special meaning in xargs
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xargs-apostrophe
In response to http://askubuntu.com/questions/80244/how-do-i-sort-by-human-readable-sizes-numerically/552976?noredirect=1#answer-552976
mark:~/dutest $ touch "a'b"
mark:~/dutest $ du -s * | sort -n | cut -f2
a'b
mark:~/dutest $ du -s * | sort -n | cut -f2 | xargs du -sh
xargs: unterminated quote
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