Pretty late to the game, but ... On Mon, 08.09.2008 at 15:47:20 +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote: > 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. > > Well, you can convert back and forth between spaces > and newlines with tr(1): > > echo * | tr ' ' '\n' | grep -v whatever | tr '\n' ' '
If your data is not very large, you can also fool xargs(1) into doing the conversion for you $ echo * | xargs -n1 and $ ls -1 | xargs > It's not pretty, but it should work. Note that ls(1) > prints one file name per line, so you can simplify the > above line like this: > > ls | grep -v whatever | tr '\n' ' ' > > By the way, I often use zsh in such cases. It supports > "extended globbing", for example, the wildcard expression > *~*.(gz|bz2) matches all files _except_ the ones that end > with .gz or .bz2. Indeed much more useful than fighting with find(1) and passing the file lists around. Cheers, Ulrich Spoerlein -- It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak, and remove all doubt. _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
