> -----Original Message----- > From: Ben Yau [mailto:byau@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 9:09 AM > To: shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: Sed, awk? [solved] > > I encourage people unfamiliar with xargs to experiment > around a bit with > it, especially with find. Good sysadmin tool/trick to do > recursive file > manipulation , and to me "find . -print" much cleaner looking > than "ls -R" > > e.g. recursive file size finder > find . -type f -print | xargs ls -s > find . -type f -print | xargs du -sk I Get.. [ow_mh@hmweb ow_mh]$ find . -type f -print | xargs xargs: unmatched single quote [ow_mh@hmweb ow_mh]$ find . -type f -print | xargs ls -l xargs: unmatched single quote [ow_mh@hmweb ow_mh]$ find . -type f -print | xargs 'ls -l' xargs: unmatched single quote [ow_mh@hmweb ow_mh]$ find . -type f -print | xargs "ls -l" xargs: unmatched single quote [ow_mh@hmweb ow_mh]$ find . -type f -print | xargs du -sk xargs: unmatched single quote so.. no matter what I try.. -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
