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> For the first time ever I had to deal with xargs and find together last week. Bear in mind I've been using Unix for about 20 years now. I'm really curious ab
by tomsthumb 12y ago
> For the first time ever I had to deal with xargs and find together last week. Bear in mind I've been using Unix for about 20 years now.
I'm really curious about this. Do you have a very specific workflow that gets around that need or an alternative that would replace find + xargs? Is your job pretty niche? It just seems like I _need_ it a few times a week minimum, and I'm not really sure what would replace it off the top of my head.
I do agree on powershell being quite slick. Sometimes finding what I want is a process, but so was unix in the beginning.
- cssmoo 12y agoI just don't deal with lots of files really. I tend to deal with a small number of very big ones instead and the paths have always been short. To replace it, no idea.
- tomn 12y agoUsing find with -exec works well and avoids this kind of problem, though that may well be a gnu specific thing.