Can someone explain why when attempting to run an ex command script on a number of files, this works:
Why does find . -name \"*.xml\" | xargs grep FOO returns matchs with filenames, while find . -name \"*.xml\" | 开发者_开发百科xargs -i -sh -c \"grep FOO {}\" doesn\'t?Unless it\'s a typo in posting yo
I\'m getting results using find with filenames that have \'~\' and .swp, etc. So I did the following, but is there a bette开发者_StackOverflowr way to do this? The \'.*.js\' -iname \'*.js\' part feels
It looks like xargs reads input lines from stdin,even when it is already running maximum number of process that it can run.
I\'m trying to convert so开发者_运维问答me .flac files to .mp3, that can I import into iTunes. I tried with find, xargs and ffmpeg, but xargs give me a unterminated quote error (because I have quotes
I have a bash \'for loop\' that does what I want for i in *.data do ./prog $i >dir/$i.bck done Can I turn this into an xargs construct ?
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this string search was provided by Paul.R (much appreciated Paul): **find dir -type f -print0 | xargs -0 grep -F -f strings.txt**
Unfortunately, due to the limitations of our Unix Tru64 environment, I am unable to use the GREP -r switch to perform my search for strings within files across multiple directories and sub directories
Example of usage (contrived!开发者_运维百科): rename .mp3 files to .txt. I\'d like to be able to do something like