On Thu, 2006-06-22 at 05:46 -0700, Paul Heinlein wrote: > On Thu, 22 Jun 2006, William L. Maltby wrote: > > > On Thu, 2006-06-22 at 07:21 -0500, Robert wrote: > >><snip> > > Hint: cpio expects one entry per line (in spite of what it did for you) > > and grep operates on lines of input. If it's not clear after doing the > > od -c, call again. :-) > > cpio, like xargs, can accept an argument list terminated by a null > character rather than whitespace. Drat! I keep forgetting that things have changed, improvements been made,... to some of this stuff over the decades! I skipped right over the "--null" in cpio. Thanks for reminding me to... "man xyz" even old friends! > That what the OP was doing with the > --null switch (aka -0, also possible with xargs). It's very helpful > with unpredictable filenames. He'd have been OK if grep could have done the same for him, I guess. Hmm... in line with my new found policy of "man old_friends", grep came close, but "no cigar" with the "-Z/--null" param. However, if the "-a/-- text" param is added, it seems to do OK. <cranky bitter old man mode> Why do the GNUrus keep fixing things that aren't broken! I know in this environ, a series (pipeline) of modules that "do one thing and do it well" is not as good as a single command to "do all things and none well". </cranky bitter old man mode> :-)) > <snip sig stuff> Well, enough. Soon the Perlateers will come out and attack! -- Bill
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