On 12/10/2010 06:04 AM, Jim Hickstein wrote:
> On 2010/12/10 01:00, Paul Graydon wrote:
>> You'd still fall foul of dodgy file with special characters, surely?
>>
>> It'd be far better to do find . -name "*.meta" -exec foobar {} \; and
>> know that you're a) not going to suffer a blow up due to too many files,
>> and b) know it's not going to get screwed up by someone or something
>> deciding a space or any other special character that'd need escaped is
>> in the list.
> I'm surprised nobody yet mentioned find -print0 | xargs -0. This will handle
> spaces in filenames and much else besides, without the overhead of an exec for
> each file. When I started out, find -exec rm was sometimes the occasion for a
> coffee break, if not an early lunch. And disk drives aren't spinning millions
> of times faster than they used to. Not yet.
>
> I love xargs. I use it about once a week.
> _______________________________________________
Used parallel yet? http://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/
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