2015-07-30 4:37 GMT+03:00 Steve Litt <sl...@troubleshooters.com>: > Hi all, > > xargs is a gender-changer type program that adapts one program's stdout > to the next program's command line arguments. It's extremely handy for > shell scripting, but it can be tricky. I've written a short guide for > xargs that shows how to get around the usual xargs landmines: > > http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/xargs.htm > > Hope you like it. >
I find missing the mentioning of '-0' (for both xargs and find). I use them almost always when doing find | xargs, unless I have specific needs. Also a comparison with the shell's command substitution (`` or $()( is probably in place. Not sure why you need to scare your readers so much... Nice writeup! -- Didi _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
