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Subject: [Discuss] GNU xargs trick
From: smallm at sdf.org (Mike Small)
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2016 16:31:49 +0000
In-reply-to: <22304.58955.29196.356362@snorkack.blazemonger.com> (message from Daniel Barrett on Wed, 27 Apr 2016 12:18:19 -0400)

Daniel Barrett <dbarrett at blazemonger.com> writes:

> On April 27, 2016, Rich Pieri wrote:
>>find . -name "*.png" -print | xargs -I{} -P 4 optipng -o1 -preserve {}
>
> Nice trick. I'd recommend using "find -print0" and "xargs -0" for
> safety, in case any of your PNG filenames contain space characters:

New line characters in particular. -I changes matters to line at a time
so other space characters should be okay, right?

-- 
Mike Small
smallm at sdf.org

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