From: Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com>
To: meino.cramer@gmx.de, Zsh Users <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: "ls" output like find ... -print0 anyhow ???
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 04:49:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHYJk3SUC4Uj4G_gw5os0Je=e4ZNHAGwxTq=V8EDSUThTUj7cw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140127015951.GA56068@redoubt.spodhuis.org>
On 27 January 2014 02:59, Phil Pennock
<zsh-workers+phil.pennock@spodhuis.org> wrote:
> On 2014-01-25 at 06:54 +0100, meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote:
>> is there a way to temporary convince 'ls' to act that way, that I can
>> use '| xargs -0' with it?
>>
>> Thank ypu very much in advance for any help!
>
> I'd use the print builtin of zsh, so that there are no argv length
> limitations, combined with zsh's very powerful glob operators.
>
> print -N **/*.c(mM-1) | xargs -0 ...
>
> The `print -N` uses NUL characters between arguments, for compatibility
> with `xargs -0`, and the example glob finds all .c files anywhere under
> the current directory which were modified in the past month.
>
> -Phil
If you use the print builtin, make sure to also use -r to not do
backslash expansions.
--
Mikael Magnusson
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-27 3:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-25 5:54 meino.cramer
2014-01-25 11:07 ` Han Pingtian
2014-01-25 11:51 ` Moritz Bunkus
2014-01-25 12:11 ` nyuszika7h
2014-01-25 12:13 ` Atom Smasher
2014-01-25 18:26 ` Bart Schaefer
2014-01-27 1:59 ` Phil Pennock
2014-01-27 3:49 ` Mikael Magnusson [this message]
2014-01-27 4:20 ` Bart Schaefer
2014-01-27 4:27 ` Kurtis Rader
2014-01-27 10:10 ` Atom Smasher
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