On Wed, 2005-03-23 at 15:30 -0700, Nicholas Leippe wrote: > On Wednesday 23 March 2005 03:04 pm, Stuart Jansen wrote: > > Safer would be > > to stop doing a one liner. > > What's wrong with one-liners? Why not: > > f=.$RANDOM; mkfifo $f; find -iname '*.csv' > $f & \ > tar -T $f -cjf archive.tar.bz2 && rm $f >
Heh, nice. ;-) Might want to toss an || rm $f to emulate a finally block. /me wonders if that works with files containing spaces in the name -- Stuart Jansen e-mail/jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "XML is like violence: if it doesn't solve your problem, you aren't using enough of it." - Chris Maden
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