Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2014 14:55:34 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: long string using find and "-exec ls -ls" to find part-of filename Message-ID: <20140630215534.GA28552@ethic.thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20140630214506.GA1606@holstein.holy.cow> References: <20140630045605.GA11147@ethic.thought.org> <53B0EFF2.80205@calorieking.com> <CA%2Bg%2BBvg1=o71ObOpbh4ry-=unj2HOjjmcQHX1DOeAfwyhLu=QQ@mail.gmail.com> <20140630053004.GB16901@ethic.thought.org> <CA%2Bg%2BBvh%2BDk0iYCjbGKVt59-nfDoCFQ6qmArrJu7ueaT7VzDi1g@mail.gmail.com> <20140630064044.GA25085@ethic.thought.org> <20140630230316.44ec3257.freebsd@edvax.de> <20140630214506.GA1606@holstein.holy.cow>
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===== Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. Of_Interest: With 27++ years of service to the Unix community. On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 11:45:06AM -1000, Parv wrote: > > If only one command to be run for each file, then xargs can be used > with "-n" option to specify "the maximum number of arguments taken > from standard input for each invocation" ... > > find ... | xargs -n 1 command ... > > how about whitespace? ls -lsi appears as two cmds, so would it work as you have with backtics? find ... | xargs -n 1 `ls -lsi` > -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix Twenty-seven years of service to the Unix community.
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