Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com From: Dario Alcocer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15155.44230.708143.152353@coyote.priv.helixdigital.com> Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 13:38:30 -0700 To: "Karr, David" Cc: "'cygwin@cygwin.com'" Subject: Re: 'find | xargs -n100 -i{} echo "{}"': works, but is slower than without "-i{}" In-Reply-To: <2C08D4EECBDED41184BB00D0B747334202FB44B3@exchanger.cacheflow.com> References: <2C08D4EECBDED41184BB00D0B747334202FB44B3@exchanger.cacheflow.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.76 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid >>>>> "David" == Karr, David writes: David> I work on a project where some of the files and directories David> were created with spaces in them. That will eventually be David> rectified, but it's hard to say when (we use a CM system David> that doesn't make this easy to deal with). David> I often find that I have to do "find | grep" operations. I David> realized I couldn't get this to work unless I did something David> like this: David> find . -type f | xargs -n100 -i{} grepf searchstring David> "{}" <...snip...> David> Is there any way to get back my more efficient command David> line, while still working with my annoying "spacy" David> directories? Well, I don't know about more "efficient", but there is a better way: $ find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 grepf searchstring This command-line will use nulls instead of whitespace to separate the filenames. Refer to the manual pages for find(1) and xargs(1) for more information regarding the -print0 and -0 options. This approach is what I use whenever I need to process files in the "C:\Program Files" directory. Hope this helps, -- Dario Alcocer -- Sr. Software Developer, Helix Digital Inc. alcocer@helixdigital.com -- http://www.helixdigital.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple