[H-GEN] Useful not so obvious tips

[Byron Ellacott]

Michael Anthon wrote:
> belial:~# find . -name file\* -print0 -maxdepth 1 | xargs -0 -i ls {}
> ./files.txt
> ./file with spaces
> Does them one at a time (useful is the program only takes one argument)

At this point you're not getting any benefit out of xargs, since you're 
invoking ls once per file.  You may as well use the -exec option to find 
and be done with it. :)

You could also use:

     find . -type f -printf '"%p" ' | xargs ls

But then any files with double quotes will not work.  You could 
similarly try for single quotes, with a similar problem. :)  If you find 
you're needing to use the -print0 and -0 options, you probably aren't 
getting any benefit from xargs anyway.

I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong. :)

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bje