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Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 04:49:37 +0100
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Subject: Re: "ls" output like find ... -print0 anyhow ???
From: Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com>
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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