On 29.07.2010 07:17, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
On Wednesday 28 July 2010 21:37:44 Karl Vogel wrote:
On Thu, 29 Jul 2010 01:04:27 -0000,
Cameron Hutchison<li...@xdna.net> said:
C> find $MAGDIR -iname '*.zip' -print0 | xargs -0 some-command
C> -iname matches names case insensitively. Since you then dont need grep,
C> you also dont need tr0.
I need to think before posting. I didn't mention that I have FreeBSD,
Linux, and Solaris boxes, and unfortunately I can't guarantee the same
access to GNU find. I can install xargs if the system version doesn't
recognize the "-0" option, so I usually end up scripting for the lowest
common denominator.
In that case, you'll have to be very careful in order to handled file names
that contain IFS characters or newlines:
find "$MAGDIR" -name "*.[zZ][iI][pP]" -exec \
sh -c 'handle_single_file "$1"' ignored {} \;
That will work on any POSIX system, or most systems with POSIX-conforming find
and sh. You *may* have to specify full paths to the POSIX-conforming find and
sh commands.
yes, '-exec command {} +' is also POSIX, but newer (collects argument
list similar to xargs).
What I've been reading on a recent discussion on de.comp.os.unix.shell
-print0 is about of equal age, so about an equal chance to have one or
the other feature available.
I think using '-type f' would not be wrong either, as otherwise we would
match directories also.
Best regards
Mart
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