Thanks for the template. I'll add it to the others and see if I can get
something to work.
As for the top vs bottom reply, as you said it is a personal thing.
I prefer the top reply. this allows me to see the answer to the reply in
the preview window
without having to scroll down the whole message that I had previously
read.
On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 09:28 +0000, G T Smith wrote:
> <snip>
>
> >>
> >> Anyway, here are some of the elements you have to work with:
> >>
> >> - The "find" command
> >> It has an option ("-print0") to print file names with NUL termination
> >> instead of the usual newline termination.
> >>
> >> - The "xargs" command
> >> It has an option ("-0"), a counterpart to find's -print0, that makes
> >> it read file names with NUL termination
> >>
> >> - The "unix2dos" command
> >> This does the basic text file format conversion.
> >>
> >>
>
> IMHO Not really doable as a single command line, though someone will no
> doubt prove me wrong :-) ....
>
> Something like....
>
> find <base directory>/* -type d >scandirs
> while read SCANDIR; do
> do stuff with $SCANDIR
> done < scandirs
>
> as a template for a script may work... If you know little about bash
> scripting it looks like now is the time to learn....
>
> if the directory structure is not too large putting the results of the
> find command in a variable and feeding the variable to a for loop and or
> to xargs may work (but xargs does have some limitations).
>
> This is only a pointer to an approach...
>
> BTW Please think before you place your answer, I am personally not
> particularly religious about the Top Post vs Bottom Post argument...
> (Strikes me as rather like the big-endian vs little-endian war in
> Gullivers Travels) but it is a good idea to try an retain something
> resembling a consistent flow to the history of an argument when
> replying.....
>
> Probably time to put on the asbestos underwear :-)
>
> <snip>
>
>
>
>
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