[Ilugc] .a-tip-a-day. xargs command
- From: rajasuperman@xxxxxxxxx (Raja Subramanian)
- Date: Mon Sep 21 18:24:41 2009
On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 5:04 AM, Girish Venkatachalam
<girishvenkatachalam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
$ find /etc | xargs vi
...
$ find /etc -type f | xargs vi
This command will not work if you have filenames with spaces.
Recommended that you null terminate your strings like this to
handle such cases:
find /etc -type f -print0 | xargs -0 vi
- Raja
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