From: Han Pingtian <hanpt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: question about zargs
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2012 06:32:06 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121031223206.GA19590@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <121031093018.ZM11752@torch.brasslantern.com>
On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 02:25:46PM +0000, Peter Stephenson wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Oct 2012 21:40:07 +0800
> Han Pingtian <hanpt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> > I just learnt that there is a function 'zargs' which just like
> > 'xargs'. So why we need the 'zargs' as we have 'xargs' already?
> >
> > As a example, this works just fine with 'xargs':
> >
> > % print -N **/* | xargs -n1 -0 ls
>
> It works, but with more processes. zargs allows you to have things
> (though not ls) running completely in the shell. In that case, you
> aren't sensitive to the size of the argument list passed to an
> external
> process.
>
On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 09:30:17AM -0700, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> Preface for Han Pingtian: If the command you're going to run is external
> to the shell, then I recommend you use xargs. However, in some cases it
> may be desirable to get xargs-like behavior when passing arguments to a
> shell function or builtin, which is why there is zargs.
>
Thanks so much, Peter and Bart.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-31 22:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-31 13:40 Han Pingtian
2012-10-31 14:25 ` Peter Stephenson
2012-10-31 16:30 ` Bart Schaefer
2012-10-31 22:32 ` Han Pingtian [this message]
2012-11-01 0:10 ` delete key :( Ray Andrews
2012-11-01 12:54 ` Peter Stephenson
2012-11-01 15:21 ` Ray Andrews
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