On 2008-01-30 09:26:12, Dan H. wrote: > My favorite way is to use find's -printf directive to construct the complete > commands and pipe the result to a shell. Has the advantage that you first > hack away at your complete find commend and give it a dry run, and if you're > happy with what it spits out you just tack the "| sh" bit to the end.
Now, _that_ is a tip i wish I head read earlier, guess it also plays really well with akward input like stuff you need to escape as you can simply look at what it will do before killing a lot of stuff. martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]