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Etaoin Shrdlu <shrdlu@×××××××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> On Saturday 29 May 2010, Daniel D Jones wrote: |
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> > On Wednesday 26 May 2010 06:42:08 Joerg Schilling wrote: |
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> > > Patrick Holthaus <patrick.holthaus@×××××××××××××.de> wrote: |
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> > > > You might try: |
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> > > > |
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> > > > find -name *.ext -print0 | xargs -0 rm |
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> > > But this is non-standard. |
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> > In what way is this non-standard? That is, what standard is it contrary |
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> > to? |
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> SUS (aka POSIX), although some people are pushing to include -print0 | xargs |
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> -0 into the standard. What Joerg meant is that the above construct will only |
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> run when using GNU find and xargs. Of course, if you're running Linux, that is |
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> probably the case already anyway. |
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And there is a big cheavat against this proposal as xargs -0 was introduced |
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long after -exec + exsists and as introducing xargs -0 would force us to |
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change _many_ other utilities too in order to come to a consistent overall |
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behavior again. For this reason, there was even the proposal to instead remove |
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"xargs" from the standard as -exec + does everything that is needed. |
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Jörg |
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EMail:joerg@××××××××××××××××××××××××.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin |
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joerg.schilling@××××××××××××××××.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ |
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