Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> here's something that ocmes up a lot for me:
>
> I use locate to find a bunch of files:
>
> % locate charter | grep -i font
> /usr/share/texmf/fonts/afm/bitstrea/charter
> /usr/share/texmf/fonts/tfm/bitstrea/charter
> /usr/share/texmf/fonts/type1/bitstrea
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 02:27:11AM -0500, Matt Price wrote:
[...]
} ls < locate charter | grep -i font
} ?
} nothing I try works -- but I can't believe it's impossible! any
} hints?
locate charter | grep -i font | tr '\012' '\000' | xargs -0 ls -ld
xargs is your friend. So is tr. Learn them an
On Sat, 03 Jan 2004 23:34:59 -0800, Nano Nano wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 02:27:11AM -0500, Matt Price wrote:
>> so I have to do it by hand at the moment. But shouldn't I be able to
>> automate it with somthing like:
>>
>> ls < locate charter | grep -i font
>> ?
>> nothing I try works -- b
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 03:36:36AM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote:
> I use a little bash code over and over again.
> Its a while loop.
>
> locate charter| grep -i font | while read line; do
> ls -l $line;
> done
>
> It has many uses and it doesnt have a limit like xargs.
> I found out about xargs
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 01:10:51AM -0800, Nano Nano wrote:
[snip]
> it looks messier) and you can't use the sort options of less, for
i meant sort options of ls
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On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 03:36:36AM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote:
[snip]
>
> locate charter| grep -i font | while read line; do
> ls -l $line;
> done
Invoking 'ls' in a loop is semantically different from invoking it once,
although you can compensate for it. I prefer backticks because you can
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 02:27:11AM -0500, Matt Price wrote:
> hey folks,
>
> here's something that ocmes up a lot for me:
>
> I use locate to find a bunch of files:
>
> % locate charter | grep -i font
> /usr/share/texmf/fonts/afm/bitstrea/charter
> /usr/share/texmf/fonts/tfm/bitstrea/charter
>
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 02:27:11AM -0500, Matt Price wrote:
> so I have to do it by hand at the moment. But shouldn't I be able to
> automate it with somthing like:
>
> ls < locate charter | grep -i font
> ?
> nothing I try works -- but I can't believe it's impossible! any
> hints?
I use back
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