HPR4389: Comments on hpr4373

Hosted by Rho`n on 2025-05-29 01:00:00

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Synopsis

On this episode, Rho`n talks about his experience with the *nix find command

and the -print0 option in relation to oxo's experience. He also gives a

 brief explanation of the xargs command and its use with find -print0.

References:

• How to Use the xargs Command on Linux
• xargs(1) — Linux manual page

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HPR Comments

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Dave Morriss says: Good episode

RE: hpr4389::2025-05-29 Comments on hpr4373 by Rho`n
00:07:17 Listen in ogg, opus, or mp3 format.
Hi Rho`n,

This was great. I had some similar thoughts to you and made a comment on show 4373. You win more HPR points by making a show about it though ;-)

I have a "to do" note to myself to prepare a show on 'find', but have never got round to it. It's a very powerful and useful tool, and someone should talk about it!

Similarly with 'xargs', as you said.

Cheers, Dave

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oxo says: Hi Rho`n

RE: hpr4389::2025-05-29 Comments on hpr4373 by Rho`n
00:07:17 Listen in ogg, opus, or mp3 format.
Hi Rho`n,

Very interesting episode. I did a quick search and learnt that besides xargs, grep, sort and wc can receive null-terminated input via the '-z' option. Also it seems that tar can handle null-terminated filenames by the use of '--null'. Certainly more to explore for me :)

Regards oxo

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