On 2020-05-14 at 07:28, Nicolas George wrote: > Dan Ritter (12020-05-14): > >> find . -name "*foo" -print > > I have not not noticed where Albretch told us that the millions of > files where all together and could be selected by a simplistic > pattern on their name. > > The question was not how to find the files, the formulation of the > question indicates that Albretch has that covered.
As far as I can tell, the find invocation has nothing to do with finding the files. The find invocation seems to serve simply as a convenient way to get the path-and-filenames to be null-terminated, so as to be able to pass them to xargs that way, since passing them to xargs without null-termination will produce unexpected results if any of the paths or filenames contains a space - which we don't have enough information to safely assume is not the case. As such, a jab at the use of find here strikes me as ill-advised at best. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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