Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote:
Bill Hacker wrote:
After all, if use of find or xargs accomplishes the task w/o ill
effects on memory, then what prevents creation of a compiled utility
that has that same sort of 'flavor' of approach - just hard-wired
from the get-go?
It would have to be a shell builtin
An assumption based on legacy.
rm() {
args=rm
while [ "$#" -lt 0 ]
do
case "$1" in
-*) args="$args $1"; shift ;;
*) break ;;
esac
done
echo "$@" | xargs $args
}
Thanks,
I (think) I understand what it is expected to do, but have missed
something, as a cut n' paste hasn't (done that) yet.
Not in ksh anyway.
Example of syntax 'in use'? i.e. what to feed it...
Bill
