Re: long string using find and "-exec ls -ls" to find part-of fi

On Sun, 29 Jun 2014 23:40:44 -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
> 	ANYWAY, the thing learned tonight is that it's *XARGS* <cmd>
> 	instead of -exec abcfubarCmd.  

Allow me to add one little reminder:

When using xargs, usually _one_ program will be executed
with a command line containing _all_ results of the find
command. If you want to run a program on _each_ of the
results, this is the typical sh solution:

	find ... | while read F; do
		somecommand $F
	done

Or maybe less elegant:

	for F in `find ...`; do
		somecommand $F
	done

But keep in mind things get more complicated when the file
names contain valid, but "unpleasant" characters, such as
spaces. In this case, reading this can help:

	David A. Wheeler:
	Filenames and Pathnames in Shell: How to do it Correctly
	http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/filenames-in-shell.html

	David A. Wheeler:
	Fixing Unix/Linux/POSIX Filenames:
	Control Characters (such as Newline), Leading Dashes,
	and Other Problems
	http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/fixing-unix-linux-filenames.html

But if you've been using "clean" file names, this shouldn't
be a big problem. ;-)

-- 
Polytropon
Magdeburg, Germany
Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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