On 4/22/24 23:18, James Youngman wrote:
locate-ls() {
locate -0 "$@" | xargs -0 ls -ld
}
I'd suggest using -r there also, so that if no files are found, the user
doesn't get a surprising listing of just "." (with its mod-time and so
forth).
$ xargs --help | grep empty
-r, --no-run-if-e
>
>
>
> locate-ls() {
>locate -0 "$@" | xargs -0 ls -ld
> }
>
>
I'd suggest using -r there also, so that if no files are found, the user
doesn't get a surprising listing of just "." (with its mod-time and so
forth).
