-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 8/10/19 9:33 am, Craig Sanders via luv-main wrote:
Either with 'find ... -exec' or, if you need to process find's list of filenames (with grep or sed or something) make sure you use NUL separated output and tools that can handle NUL-separated input (e.g. 'find ... -print0 | grep -z ... | head -z -n 10 | xargs -0r')
find badly needs an option for sorting the output via timestamps. Want the last version of a file: ls -rt|tail -1 How do you do that with find?
Most GNU tools these days have a '-z' option for that. some others do too. and perl has '-0', as does 'xargs'. With awk you can set the input (and/or output) record separator with RS="\0" (or ORS="\0").
- -print0 is very useful and I use it all the time, usually with xargs -0 Cheers A. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHUEAREIAB0WIQTJAoMHtC6YydLfjUOoFmvLt+/i+wUCXZyoFQAKCRCoFmvLt+/i +2ydAP469YS8NFe0QeIZaHB0MN/LJO2irR5YA/whIpuXjOGzngEA0fyXE0ZYv0Xf tkCFyhPJHIr+Mmar65C7SyC/lZEfXks= =NhXe -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----