Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 18:46:09 +0200 From: Jonathan McKeown <jonathan+freebsd-hackers@hst.org.za> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Extending find(1) to support -printf Message-ID: <200809051846.09516.jonathan%2Bfreebsd-hackers@hst.org.za> In-Reply-To: <20080905143915.GA60002@icarus.home.lan> References: <20080905101253.GA53396@icarus.home.lan> <20080905143915.GA60002@icarus.home.lan>
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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
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