How to use cscope with paths that contain spaces

Question

There are some folder that contains space, and as a result, those folders can not be indexed using cscope.

Can i ask you for help to solve this,or any suggestion.

thanks Julius

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Thanks for your reply.

My steps to use cscope like the following

• find . -name '*.scala'>cscope.files
• cscope -b
  at this step. i see the message indicates that can not find file:
  cscope: cannot find file /work/project/copy
  cscope: cannot find file of
  cscope: cannot find file fp/src/main/jav....
  Actually copy of fp is a folder.so i think cscope can not recognize the folder contains space.

I encountered this problem when i tried to use vim with cscope.maybe i need move this question to other tag.

Irascible

You used the Vim tag. Is this because you are trying to use the :cscope commands within Vim? If so, can you show the commands that you are trying and what errors you are getting? – Womb

Answer 1

You can do it simply using GNU find at least, you can use the -printf or -fprintf options for that:

find . -type f -fprintf cscope.files '"%p"\n'

Lancey

simplify %h/%f to %p – Yiyid

Yours is the fastest answer: 8% faster than mine, 14% faster than with sed . . . and 1000x as fast as with exec! – Yiyid

Answer 2

pydave's answer is very slow. This way took 0.10s where pydave's answer took 14s:

find . -name "*.scala" | awk '{print "\""$0"\""}' > cscope.files

Yiyid

Kudos! Works really fast – Pastor

Answer 3

You can use find's -exec to force quotes around your output:

find . -name "*.scala" -exec echo \"{}\" \; > cscope.files

You might need to mess around with quoting/escaping if you're doing this from a script.

Carolinacaroline

This answer takes ~1 second to do ~100 files. My answer takes ~1 second to do ~100,000 files. – Yiyid

@webb: Using fprintf (Olivier Diotte's answer) certainly seems like a better use of find than my naive proposal. – Carolinacaroline

Answer 4

Double quoting the files names works in cygwin, where as escaping with backslash does not.

$ find $PWD -name "*.scala" | sed -e 's/^/"/g' -e 's/$/"/g' > cscope.files

Moneylender

sed 's/.*/"&"/' is slightly faster – Yiyid