On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 03:51:01PM -0800, Paul Allen Newell wrote: > Your suggestion regarding xargs helped. This is the second time its > been suggested to me and I am going to go off and read about it as I > get a sense it will make my life alot easier. Just be aware if you've any directory paths with funny characters in them--especially spaces (think Microsoft files hosted on your filesystem)--xargs has kittens. There are ways around that, but. The shell is remarkably powerful--I first started shell programming while I was slinging 'C' code at BTL on the 5ESS switch back in 1980, and I got deeply into some of the fun stuff--pipes, multiple concurrent open files and redirection, etc. (It was my then-perceived need for 'cut' and 'paste' on a Unix variant--Venix--that didn't have those useful little ditties that led me to write them back then.) Cheers, -- Dave Ihnat dihnat@xxxxxxxxxx -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
