On Friday 05 September 2008 16:39, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > Equally as frustrating, mutt's backtick support will only honour the > first line of input. If a backticked command returns multiple lines, > only the first is read; the rest are ignored. This makes using BSD find > annoying, since find always outputs results terminated with a newline. > One of my peers uses find | perl -ne 'chomp; print "=", $_, " "' to deal > with this limit, which is quite disgusting.
It is, especially when you consider find ... | xargs (or find ... -print0 | xargs -0 if your filenames might cause problems (embedded spaces etc)). Jonathan _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
