on Tue, Apr 30, 2002, Brenda J. Butler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
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> On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 12:05:33PM -0400, jeff wrote:
> > Allan Wind wrote:
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> > > cd /usr/local/share/icons; find / \( -name \*.gif -o name \*.jpeg \
> ^^
> > > -o -name \*.jpg -o -name \*.tif -o -name \*.tiff \) -a -type f | \
> > > xargs -i ln -s \{\} .
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> In this case, cut'n'paste was your enemy :-(
> You left off the hyphen that introduces this test (see
> indication above).
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> Also, personally I like to force the period to be a period and
> not a wildcard for "any character", just in case there was a file
> named myfilewhichisjpg that I didn't want to match. I also
> usually put the -print explicitly.Experience has taught me that "-print0" (find) and -0 (xargs) can be useful as well. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[email protected]> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Moderator, Free Software Law Discussion mailing list: http://lists.alt.org/mailman/listinfo/fsl-discuss/
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