From: "Yuri K. Shatroff" <yks-uno@yandex.ru>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] look for a file type + sort
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 17:51:04 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52331848.8030603@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAG2nJkNTTXwEGMrrFepFtf4y-Xm0SE_o0PumrxoK=8_d4rEEsg@mail.gmail.com>
On 13.09.2013 17:43, Mark David Dumlao wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 9:36 PM, Yuri K. Shatroff <yks-uno@yandex.ru> wrote:
>> On 13.09.2013 10:24, Jean-Christophe Bach wrote:
>> [ ... ]
>>
>>>
>>> This one should work:
>>>
>>> find /home/joseph/ -iname "*.pdf" -exec ls -l --sort=time {} +
>>
>>
>> -exec is not suitable here because it spawns a `ls` process per each found
>> entry; aside from being slow, this disallows sorting at all.
>
> This is incorrect. If you terminate exec with '+' instead of '\;', only a single
> instance of the command is run - the command line is built by appending
> each found file to the end of the {} placeholder.
Sorry, I'm ashamed
I didn't know about this feature. Does it also handle spaces correctly?
> The only reason I see for it to fail is if you have so many files that
> it can't be
> passed to the argv of the receiving command.
There's always an opportunity to use tempfiles ;)
--
Best wishes,
Yuri K. Shatroff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-13 13:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-13 4:48 [gentoo-user] look for a file type + sort Joseph
2013-09-13 4:58 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2013-09-13 5:04 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2013-09-13 5:11 ` Joseph
2013-09-13 5:16 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2013-09-13 6:24 ` Jean-Christophe Bach
2013-09-13 6:50 ` Florian Philipp
2013-09-13 12:45 ` Joseph
2013-09-13 13:36 ` Yuri K. Shatroff
2013-09-13 13:43 ` Mark David Dumlao
2013-09-13 13:51 ` Yuri K. Shatroff [this message]
2013-09-14 4:04 ` Mark David Dumlao
2013-09-14 19:16 ` Florian Philipp
2013-09-13 20:52 ` Alexander Kapshuk
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