Matt Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
here's something that ocmes up a lot for me:
I use locate to find a bunch of files:
% locate charter | grep -i font
/usr/share/texmf/fonts/afm/bitstrea/charter
/usr/share/texmf/fonts/tfm/bitstrea/charter
/usr/share/texmf/fonts/type1/bitstrea/charter
hey folks,
here's something that ocmes up a lot for me:
I use locate to find a bunch of files:
% locate charter | grep -i font
/usr/share/texmf/fonts/afm/bitstrea/charter
/usr/share/texmf/fonts/tfm/bitstrea/charter
/usr/share/texmf/fonts/type1/bitstrea/charter
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 02:27:11AM -0500, Matt Price wrote:
so I have to do it by hand at the moment. But shouldn't I be able to
automate it with somthing like:
ls locate charter | grep -i font
?
nothing I try works -- but I can't believe it's impossible! any
hints?
I use backticks:
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 02:27:11AM -0500, Matt Price wrote:
hey folks,
here's something that ocmes up a lot for me:
I use locate to find a bunch of files:
% locate charter | grep -i font
/usr/share/texmf/fonts/afm/bitstrea/charter
/usr/share/texmf/fonts/tfm/bitstrea/charter
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 03:36:36AM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote:
[snip]
locate charter| grep -i font | while read line; do
ls -l $line;
done
Invoking 'ls' in a loop is semantically different from invoking it once,
although you can compensate for it. I prefer backticks because you can
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 01:10:51AM -0800, Nano Nano wrote:
[snip]
it looks messier) and you can't use the sort options of less, for
i meant sort options of ls
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On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 03:36:36AM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote:
I use a little bash code over and over again.
Its a while loop.
locate charter| grep -i font | while read line; do
ls -l $line;
done
It has many uses and it doesnt have a limit like xargs.
I found out about xargs but
On Sat, 03 Jan 2004 23:34:59 -0800, Nano Nano wrote:
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 02:27:11AM -0500, Matt Price wrote:
so I have to do it by hand at the moment. But shouldn't I be able to
automate it with somthing like:
ls locate charter | grep -i font
?
nothing I try works -- but I can't
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 02:27:11AM -0500, Matt Price wrote:
[...]
} ls locate charter | grep -i font
} ?
} nothing I try works -- but I can't believe it's impossible! any
} hints?
locate charter | grep -i font | tr '\012' '\000' | xargs -0 ls -ld
xargs is your friend. So is tr. Learn them
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