michael wrote:
Anybody got a quick solution to how to use xargs in corp with, say, find and ls when there's more chars than xarg (see -s) likes for a single run? eg if I run find . -name 'me*' -print | xargs ls -altd and find gives more than circa 20k chars then it appears that ls is run multiple times with the output concat-ed ie you get groups of date sorted files rather than a single list of date sorted files... (giving xargs the '-x' aborts the above cmd indicating find returns more charsthan xargs can handle on a single run)...ta, michael
Assuming that the 'ls -altd' is what you actually want, you might find the '-ls' option to 'find' useful. From the manual:
-ls True; list current file in ‘ls -dils’ format on standard output.
The block counts are of 1K blocks, unless the environment vari‐
able POSIXLY_CORRECT is set, in which case 512-byte blocks are
used. See the UNUSUAL FILENAMES section for information about
how unusual characters in filenames are handled.
Not quite the same set of options, but the find will get you the dot
files, so you don't need the 'a'. The only problem would be the 't' ;(
but maybe you could pipe the 'find' output to 'sort', which shouldn't
care about the line length. And the extra columns from the 'i' and 's'
options could be removed with awk, sed or cut.
I hope this helps. Bob
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