cut -d: -f1 < /etc/passwd | sort | xargs -0 echo
the -ZERO indicates that the incoming fields are null terminated
On 28/01/2008, andrew colin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> For give me if am wrong but i think i have experienced it be4 take a look
>
> cut -d: -f1 < /etc/passwd | sort | xargs echo -n
>
> and
>
> cut -d: -f1 < /etc/passwd | sort | xargs echo
>
> If xargs was called once for each line you would have a vertical line
> but both end up with horizontal listing.
>
>
>
> On 1/28/08, Peter C. Ndikuwera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > exactly. find . -type f | xargs rm -f is faster than the 'exec'
> equivalent.
> >
> > In case your files have weird quotable characters, e.g. ` ' etc in them
> (or
> > spaces) use:
> > find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 rm -f
> >
> >
> > On 28/01/2008, Noah K Sematimba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > > Actually not. I actually use xargs and I am not sure there is a
> difference
> > > between the two commands. AFAIK xargs actually also runs rm for every
> > single
> > > file as the output gets piped to it.
> > >
> > > Noah.
> > > On Monday 28 January 2008 17:09, andrew colin wrote:
> > > > xargs takes back to the problem of mv only supporting a certain
> number
> > > > of arguments.
> > > >
> > > > On 1/28/08, Hari Kurup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > > Patrick Okui wrote:
> > > > > > The last time I tried something similar (4 years ago) it works
> > pretty
> > > > > > well with one limitation. Bash (and other shells) won't take
> more
> > than
> > > > > > 256 (i think) arguments so you'd have to find . -type f -exec rm
> > '{}'
> > > > > > ';' or similar.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > That would work but I'm not sure how long it would actually
> take.
> > > > >
> > > > > I think piping it through xargs would be faster? This one calls
> 'rm'
> > for
> > > > > every single file.
> > > > >
> > > > > --
> > > > > Hari
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