Re: Re: skinning a cat

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Colin Guthrie wrote:

> Jochem Maas wrote:
>> either way, I've just learn't something new as far as shellscripting
>> goes :-)
>> apart from the xargs command ... that still does my head in (don't
>> worry I'll look it up ... for the umpteenth time).
>>>
>>> find $lockfile -cmin +60 | xargs rm
> 
> FWIW, it's nicer to do:
> $ find $lockfine -cmin +60 -exec rm {} \;
> 
> 
> This method handles files with spaces in them, where are the xargs
> method does not (not that it matters in this case).

That could also be taken care of by:

find $lockfile -cmin +60 -print0 | xargs -0 rm

IMO, the syntax of the -exec argument is too cumbersome. 


/Per Jessen, Zürich


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