[Gllug] Re: spaces and shell scripting

[Jon Dye]

Alain Williams wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 02:43:50PM +0100, Jon Dye wrote:
>>	# do something with the list of files
>>	find /some/directory -print0 | xargs -o some_other_command
> 
> 
> If you give find '-print0' you must give xargs '--null', or is '-o' supposed
> to be '-0' ?

Oops, that was supposed to be "-0".

>>but I want to avoid multiple find statements because they are slow.  I 
>>guess I want either to put the list of files in a variable with 
>>delimiters between the file names or put them into an array somehow.
>>
>>If any can tell me how to achieve what I want (or suggest a better way 
>>to do it) I'd be grateful.
> 
> I don't see why you just don't do it using find/xargs:
> 
> 	find /some/directory -print0 | xargs --null --no-run-if-empty some_other_command
> 
> --no-run-if-empty stops it doing anything if there is nothing to do.

because I want to run different commands depending on whether there are 
one or more files.

JD
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