4 Jan
2023
4 Jan
'23
9:19 p.m.
Hi Adam,
Bakul Shah wrote:
> In fact I use find (or zsh's **/*)
bash(1) also has ‘**’ if ‘shopt -s globstar’.
I was 50 years old before I learned that sort has a
-u, so I could
have saved the pipe-through-uniq step.
Did you never have a Unix with fine man pages to read? :-) Before info(1).
Or ‘The Unix Programming Environment’ mentions sort(1)'s -u on page 106.
I also keep getting told grep has a -r but my finger
macros won't stop
typing find . -name \*.py | xargs ...
‘... **/*.py’ using the ‘**’ Bakul mentions above.
(And yes, it's GNU find just about everywhere, so
I can do -print0 |
xargs -0 and not have to get fancy with the -I)
A lot of the time, POSIX find's ‘-exec foo {} +’ suffices and runs
foo with as many arguments as will just fit under argv[]s limits,
like xargs by default and unlike find's one-at-a-time behaviour with
‘-exec foo {} \;’.
"I've never seen anyone use a GUI just as a
way to keep a
dozen terminal windows open side by side before."
Clearly, you're a trendsetter. :-) Tiling window managers are popular,
e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I3_(window_manager)
--
Cheers, Ralph.