At 6:44 PM +0200 5/30/09, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
>> the famous back-tics.
>>
>> % grep "expression" `find /path/to/files/ -mtime -2 -print`
>>
>> Of course, there are surely easier, faster and better means,
>> but from this one, I know it just works. :-) Furthermore, I
>
>unless filelist exceed max lenght of arguments and unfortunately it
>happens often
I use bash as my default shell and have become rather enamored
with the construct
<make-a-list> | while read x; do <pretty-much-whatever> "$x"; done
which should get around the list length limitations and
provides for doing "extras" between the "do" and the "done".
Specifically:
find /path/to/files/ -mtime -2 -print | \
while read x; do grep "expression" "$x"; done
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