[darcs-users] a bash tip for easily excluding the _darcs directory

Ralph Corderoy ralph at inputplus.co.uk
Wed Mar 9 11:36:59 UTC 2005


Hi Gerhard,

> > Please consider suggesting xargs(1) since it saves many invocations of
> > grep.
> >     find . \( -path ./_darcs -o -path ./subrepo/_darcs \) -prune -o \
> >         -print |
> >     xargs grep string /dev/null
> 
> Better yet use zero-ended strings if some of the files contain spaces
> in the filename
> 
>      find . \( -path ./_darcs -o -path ./subrepo/_darcs \) -prune -o \
>          -print0 |
>      xargs -0 grep string /dev/null

People may not have GNU find and GNU xargs.  Have the NUL versions
reached POSIX yet?

Cheers,


Ralph.





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