[Gllug] shell quoting problem

[- Tethys]

On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 4:14 PM, Nix <nix at esperi.org.uk> wrote:

> locate -0 "John Smith" | xargs -0r ls -l

Oooohhh. xargs -r. Very handy. When did that appear? I've been using
/dev/null since the dawn of time, so I didn't realise there was a less
kludgy way of doing it now.

Tet

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