[Discuss] xargs guide

[John Abreau]

Looks useful.

I notice a complete absence of the single most important option, though:
-0.

When I use find(1) and xargs(1), by default I always use something like

    find . -xdev ...... -print0 | xargs -0 ....

The -xdev protects against find(1) straying off the current filesystem if
it trips over an unexpected symlink, and the -print0 / -0 disables a lot of
other potential failure modes.


On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 9:39 PM, Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> xargs is a gender-changer type program that adapts one program's stdout
> to the next program's command line arguments. It's extremely handy for
> shell scripting, but it can be tricky. I've written a short guide for
> xargs that shows how to get around the usual xargs landmines:
>
> http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/xargs.htm
>
> Hope you like it.
>
> SteveT
>
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