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Am Sat, 3 Sep 2016 11:52:46 +0200 |
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schrieb Meino.Cramer@×××.de: |
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> Hi, |
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> I want to 'locate' a bunch of files and feed the output into |
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> '| xargs md5sum'. |
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> Unfortunately some of them are infected with the "file name"-virus |
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> (space in the filename). |
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> With find there is the -print0 option which corresponds to '-0' of |
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> the xargs options. As of my knowledge, locate does not have such |
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> a thing. |
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> I dont like the idea to 'find' (read: 'search again')all the files, |
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> which locate already knows...so |
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> Is there any trick/option/whatever to get the files with spaced |
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> filenames processed by md5sum in combination with 'locate'? |
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In that case try |
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$ locate ... | while read name; do md5sum "$name"; done |
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This works for results having one filename per line. |
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Regards, |
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Kai |
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