On Wednesday 26 September 2007, Mike Frysinger wrote: > or perhaps i want to take an arg list, append a string, and run a command > on it ... but i cant pass it straight as it may be too large, so i need to > xargs it ... so i'd do something like: > echo ${@/%.moo/.foo$'\000'} | xargs -0 rm -f > but this doesnt work since the $'\000' gets stripped
this could be cheated by doing: echo ${@/%.moo/.foo$'\001'} | tr '\001' '\000' | xargs -0 rm -f but i'll ask the POSIX guys as Eric suggested -mike
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