Re: stupid script tricks - slightly OT

[craigw <craigw@lvcm.com>]

On Tue Apr 30, 2002 at 12:01:19AM -0400, Brenda J. Butler wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 12:05:33PM -0400, jeff wrote:
> > Allan Wind wrote:
> > 
> > > cd /usr/local/share/icons; find / \( -name \*.gif -o name \*.jpeg  \
>                                                         ^^
> > > -o -name \*.jpg -o -name \*.tif -o -name \*.tiff \) -a -type f |   \
> > >  xargs -i ln -s \{\} .
> 
> In this case, cut'n'paste was your enemy :-(
> You left off the hyphen that introduces this test (see
> indication above).
> 
> 
> Also, personally I like to force the period to be a period and
> not a wildcard for "any character", just in case there was a file
> named myfilewhichisjpg that I didn't want to match.  I also
> usually put the -print explicitly.
> 
>   find / \( -name \*\.gif -o -name \*\.jpeg -o -name \*\.jpg   \
>   -o -name \*\.tiff -o -name \*\.tiff \) -a -type f -print |   \
>   xargs -i ln -s \{\} .
> 

works. I like it.
but if you're actually going to use it, wouldn't you want to add a
statement for testing, maybe, size & such to try & weed out some
non-icans? Like wallpapers & such?

Or at least make sure the cache is empty in all your browsers!
-- 
-CraigW



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