Re: zsh tips plea (tip of the day)

[Atom 'Smasher' <atom@suspicious.org>]

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On Sat, 24 Jul 2004, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2004-07-24 04:32:28 -0400, Atom 'Smasher' wrote:

>> i thought that's what xargs is for...
>> 	$ echo {1..30000} | xargs ls
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> Except that
>  * xargs may be insecure, unless the option -0 is used;
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i consider that more of a bug-prevention option than i security option, 
although it certainly can have security related implications.


>  * xargs can't always be used for every command;
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maybe... but it can do a lot more than most people think. like find, it's 
one of the more awkward and unintuitive commands.


>  * this requires more things to type (not important for scripts,
>    but this may be annoying when typing commands interactively).
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i consider my command-line skills and scripting skills to reinforce each 
other, so i don't mind doing strange things (aka things i've never done 
before, or things that are hard to type) in one setting, because i will 
take that with me to the other setting.

this last point is especially true with zsh, since it blows away all other 
shells at doing things on the command line spanning multiple lines.


  	...atom

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