On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 02:27:11AM -0500, Matt Price wrote: [...] } ls < locate charter | grep -i font } ? } nothing I try works -- but I can't believe it's impossible! any } hints?
locate charter | grep -i font | tr '\012' '\000' | xargs -0 ls -ld xargs is your friend. So is tr. Learn them and know them. All the other bash tricks (piping to a loop, using backticks, etc.) can give you problems with spaces and other special characters in the filenames. } thx, } matt --Greg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
