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" I've been coding since 1993 and I have never made room in my brain for stuff like -print0." Seriously? find/xargs is nearly impossible to use (safely) withou

• kamaal 14y ago
  You never need things until you begin to need them. If a way exists to solve your problems without learning arcane syntax people will take that way.
• tptacek 14y ago
  I use find|xargs pretty much exclusively for /usr/include and in my source code directories. Anything more complicated than that and I tend to be in an irb. So you know who you're dealing with here, I used Emacs for something like 10 years before I figured out how to do regexp search/replace. I'm pretty comfortable with my abilities as a software developer. If I was Steve, I'd be about as embarrassed about the idea that someone's "level of understanding" of find|sed|xargs was worth commenting about as I would about the rudeness. Of course, if I was Steve, I'd have apologized privately and not fed into the shitstorm, too. :)