[Gllug] shell quoting problem
- Tethys
tethys at gmail.com
Thu Jul 3 15:30:24 UTC 2008
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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