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On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 05:39:06PM +0000, michael wrote:
> Anybody got a quick solution to how to use xargs in corp with, say, find
> and ls when there's more chars than xarg (see -s) likes for a single
> run?
>
> eg if I run
> find . -name 'me*' -print | xargs ls -altd
> and find gives more than circa 20k chars then it appears that ls is run
> multiple times with the output concat-ed ie you get groups of date
> sorted files rather than a single list of date sorted files... (giving
> xargs the '-x' aborts the above cmd indicating find returns more chars
> than xargs can handle on a single run)...
>
> ta, michael
find . -name 'me*' -print | while read line; do
ls -altd "$line";
done
is how I would do it. Not efficient, but gets the jobs done.
Kev
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