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I really hate the way there's no standard flags, so you have to remember that find is -print0 while xargs is -0 and something else might be -null. I spend half
by brokenmachine 5y ago
I really hate the way there's no standard flags, so you have to remember that find is -print0 while xargs is -0 and something else might be -null.
I spend half my time trying to find the right arguments and the whole time wishing I just bit the bullet at the start and used a real programming language.
And god forbid if a filename might have a quote character or a space in it. Then you have to think 5x as hard about what you're doing.