On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 01:47:29PM -0700, Tyler Regas wrote: ><SNIP> > >> See the man pages for ``xargs'' for information on ways to deal >> with huge numbers of arguments. As an example to find all the >> files containing some pattern this will work on most *ix boxes: >> find . -type f -print | xargs grep -l pattern > >Sorry to say, Bill, but I'm a GUI snob. It may be faster to have a console
The question was about length of command lines, and that's what I answered. How does that relate to GUIs? Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ Bagdikian's Observation: Trying to be a first-rate reporter on the average American newspaper is like trying to play Bach's "St. Matthew Passion" on a ukelele. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
