Re: Is perl still the No.1 language for sysadmin?

[Nicolas George <george@nsup.org>]

Michael (12023-04-05):
> out of curiosity, why not omit xargs altogether and do someting like:
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> [...]
>    printf '%s\0' "$d"/*
> done |
>    while read -r -d '' line; do
> [...]
> 
> or do i miss something?

1. Your script will execute the command once per argument, xargs will
execute the command only once with all the arguments, or a few times as
possible if the number of arguments is huge.

2. If you are relying on nonstandard shell constructs, then go directly
for zsh and use recursive globbing and glob patterns.

I do not understand how people can bear working with a shell without
recursive globbing, glob patterns and temp file process substitution. My
only conjecture is they do not know about it and never learned their
marvels.

Regards,

-- 
  Nicolas George