On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 03:51:01PM -0800, Paul Allen Newell wrote:
> Your suggestion regarding xargs helped. This is the second time its
> been suggested to me and I am going to go off and read about it as I
> get a sense it will make my life alot easier.
Just be aware if you've any directory paths with funny characters in
them--especially spaces (think Microsoft files hosted on your
filesystem)--xargs has kittens. There are ways around that, but.
The shell is remarkably powerful--I first started shell programming while I
was slinging 'C' code at BTL on the 5ESS switch back in 1980, and I got
deeply into some of the fun stuff--pipes, multiple concurrent open files
and redirection, etc. (It was my then-perceived need for 'cut' and 'paste'
on a Unix variant--Venix--that didn't have those useful little ditties
that led me to write them back then.)
Cheers,
--
Dave Ihnat
dih...@dminet.com
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