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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: "zsh-users@zsh.org" <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: can I access output of locate?
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2015 20:57:08 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <150313205708.ZM25036@torch.brasslantern.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <530591426273299@web30m.yandex.ru>

On Mar 13, 10:01pm, ZyX wrote:
}
} Now locate something with a space. This variant works only as long as
} you are certain you have no characters from IFS in a file name.
}
} Thus you should use a=( ${(0)"$(locate -0 my.cnf)"} ).

Or

    locate -0 my.cnf | IFS=$'\0' read -A a

which might be slightly faster if there are a LOT of hits from locate.


      reply	other threads:[~2015-03-14  3:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-03-13 16:23 zzapper
2015-03-13 16:46 ` zzapper
2015-03-13 16:49   ` Edelwin Khaelos
2015-03-13 17:17     ` zzapper
2015-03-13 19:01       ` ZyX
2015-03-14  3:57         ` Bart Schaefer [this message]

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