Re: Shell Expansion in Bourne Shell Script Question

[vogelke+debian@pobox.com (Karl Vogel)]

>> On Wed, 28 Jul 2010 23:58:11 +0200, 
>> Mart Frauenlob <mart.frauenlob@chello.at> said:

M> One might be better of with some like this:
M>   find /DIR -regextype posix-egrep -regex '.*\.(zip|ZIP)' -exec \
M>     some_command {} +

   If the filelist is potentially too big for the max argument list on the
   system, I would do something like this:

     find $MAGDIR -print | grep -i '\.zip$' | tr0 | xargs -0 some command

   We have a ton of filenames with spaces and other crap, so "tr0" just
   replaces newlines with nulls:

     #!/bin/sh
     PATH=/bin:/usr/bin
     export PATH
     exec tr '\012' '\000'
     exit 1

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