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Hi,
On 9/10/19 4:24 pm, Craig Sanders via luv-main wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 09, 2019 at 03:46:20PM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote:
>> BTW, you could then pipe the output of the above pipeline into
>> xargs to do something with the filename(s) matched. e.g. to move
>> the matching file to another directory:
>>
>> xargs -0r mv -T /destination/
I've never seen the "xargs -0r" before, that is useful for sure.
> Actually, that should be:
>
> xargs -0r mv -T /destination/ --
The "mv -T /destination/" ... that doesn't seem to make sense to me...?
This from mv man page:
-T, --no-target-directory
treat DEST as a normal file
> The "--" prevents any filenames from being misinterpreted as
> options, in case any of them begin with a "-".
Yes, that's useful too.
I do regularly use -print0 and tools that work with that find option.
Cheers
A.
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