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From: Meino.Cramer@×××.de
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] -print0 but with 'locate'
Date: Sat, 03 Sep 2016 10:43:45
Message-Id: 20160903104331.GB4641@solfire
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] -print0 but with 'locate' by Joerg Schilling
1 Joerg Schilling <Joerg.Schilling@××××××××××××××××.de> [16-09-03 12:28]:
2 > <Meino.Cramer@×××.de> wrote:
3 >
4 > > Hi,
5 > >
6 > > I want to 'locate' a bunch of files and feed the output into
7 > > '| xargs md5sum'.
8 > > Unfortunately some of them are infected with the "file name"-virus
9 > > (space in the filename).
10 > > With find there is the -print0 option which corresponds to '-0' of
11 > > the xargs options. As of my knowledge, locate does not have such
12 > > a thing.
13 >
14 > This is one of the reasons, why POSIX did not include -print0, as it would need
15 > to add new related options to an unknown amount of other programs.
16 >
17 > Another reason of curse is that "find . -exec cmd {} +" exists longer than GNU
18 > find and it's -print0. Execplus was added on 1989 by David Korn.
19 >
20 > Jörg
21 >
22 > --
23 > EMail:joerg@××××××.net (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin
24 > joerg.schilling@××××××××××××××××.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/
25 > URL: http://cdrecord.org/private/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/schilytools/files/'
26 >
27
28
29 ...and how does it solve my problem?

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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] -print0 but with 'locate' Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>