Re: automated editing of text files

[Aéris <aeris@imirhil.fr>]

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Le 17/09/2011 00:40, Bob Proulx a écrit :
> Ah...  Very good!  An excellent suggestion!  'find' rocks!  I will
> note three things here however.
> 
> * One is that the find will recurse down through a possibly deep
> hierarchy of directories.  It isn't an identical alternative for just
> looking for *.txt in the current directory.  But probably that
> difference isn't important here.  Or perhaps that difference will be a
> really desirable feature.

Use « -maxdepth 0 » to limit to the current level only

> * Secondly if the add-pre-nl.sh script handle multiple file arguments
> then instead of \; use + so that it calls it fewer times with as many
> file arguments as possible.  It will be more efficient that way.

In this case, I prefere using « xargs » :
	find -type f -name "*.txt" | xargs add-pre-nl.sh
And if there is space/single-quote/double-quote/new-line in some filenames :
	find -type f -name "*.txt" -print0 | xargs -0 add-pre-nl.sh


> * And lastly that you forgot to include the directory path to find,
> probably a '.' wanted here.

No, « find » considers the current directory if no path is given =)

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Aeris
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