On Sat, 2 Mar 2002, Cameron Simpson wrote: A nice reply on how to clean up a script.
> <FLAME>More important, though, is that xargs suffers from much the same > design flaw that your original script did - it has quoting bugs, and > readily mangles unusual filenames a lot like your script was doing. This > so annoyed me that I NEVER use xargs, and wrote a less "feature rich" > but also nonmangling version here: > > http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/scripts/xxargs > > precisely because xargs is a broken piece of junk.</FLAME> No, it isn't broken. Just use the tools that are available. A simple example is... find /usr/share/afterstep/start/Quit/ -type f -print0 | xargs -0 ls -l Just a directory that happens to have files whose names contain spaces. "-print0" tells find to separate output with NULL characters instead of space characters, and "-0" tells xargs to use NULL characters to split input instead of whitespace. -- Jim Wright, Senior Engineer Tel: 415-358-2609 Fax: 415-358-2646 Toll Free: 888-PENGUIN PENGUIN COMPUTING - www.penguincomputing.com _______________________________________________ Seawolf-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list
