[H-GEN] Useful not so obvious tips

[ben.carlyle at invensys.com]

Greg Black <gjb at gbch.net>
25/10/2004 07:18 PM
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        To:     ben.carlyle at invensys.com
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        Subject:        Re: [H-GEN] Useful not so obvious tips


> > On 2004-10-25, ben.carlyle at invensys.com wrote:
> > To pick up the xargs point, lets take David's find -exec example and 
> > convert it to use xargs:
> > $ find . -type f -exec do_something_interesting {} \;
> > becomes
> > $ find . -type f | xargs do_something_interesting
...
> >                                    Be warned, however: Weird filenames 

> > (such as those containing spaces) can upset xargs when used in this 
mode.
> This is why god invented the -print0 option for find and the -0
> option for xargs -- there's a case for making them the defaults,
> certainly in one's typing fingers.

Speaking of companies a number of years behind on the user-interface 
front: The installation of Solaris 9 I run appears to support neither 
option in its standard version of the two utilities. Oh well. I suppose 
I'll just have to spell them as "gfind" and "gxargs" for the forseeable 
future. I suppose they go well enough with gsed and gawk (versions that 
don't balk on long lines!).

Benjamin.
Editing his .kshrc aliases list as we speak...