From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19280 invoked from network); 23 Dec 1999 00:16:21 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 23 Dec 1999 00:16:21 -0000 Received: (qmail 22597 invoked by alias); 23 Dec 1999 00:16:05 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 2801 Received: (qmail 22590 invoked from network); 23 Dec 1999 00:16:04 -0000 To: zsh-users@sunsite.auc.dk Path: mason From: mason@primenet.com.au (Geoff Wing) X-Newsgroups: lists.zsh.users Subject: Re: rm -r Date: 23 Dec 1999 00:15:58 GMT Organization: PrimeNet Computer Consultants Distribution: local Message-ID: References: Thomas Köhler's message of "Wed, 22 Dec 1999 10:58:57 +0100" <7dhfhbt8zt.fsf@greyc.ismra.fr> Reply-To: mason@primenet.com.au NNTP-Posting-Host: coral.primenet.com.au X-Trace: coral.primenet.com.au 945908158 19201 203.43.15.2 (23 Dec 1999 00:15:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@coral.primenet.com.au NNTP-Posting-Date: 23 Dec 1999 00:15:58 GMT User-Agent: slrn/0.9.5.7 (UNIX) Alexandre Duret-Lutz typed: :Since `echo' is builtin (therefore not exec'ed), you may want to do :echo PATTERN | xargs COMMAND I hope everyone is aware of the whitespace in name problem with above. Note also that ``print'' is also a builtin, and if your ``xargs'' has a ``-0'' flag or similar (separate on NUL '\0' instead of whitespace) then you should be using % print -N PATTERN | xargs -0 COMMAND :when `COMMAND PATTERN' don't work. :[...] Regards, -- Geoff Wing : Work URL: http://www.primenet.com.au/ Rxvt Stuff : Ego URL : http://pobox.com/~gcw/ Zsh Stuff : Phone : (Australia) 0413 431 874