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From: Florian Philipp <lists@binarywings.net>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] look for a file type + sort
Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2013 21:16:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5234B614.5030000@binarywings.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAG2nJkO0qTWPC4t9G-t+90AjqicsKrMmcMsyQDk-o06pt=XmaQ@mail.gmail.com>

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Am 14.09.2013 06:04, schrieb Mark David Dumlao:
> 
> On Sep 13, 2013 9:53 PM, "Yuri K. Shatroff" <yks-uno@yandex.ru
> <mailto:yks-uno@yandex.ru>> wrote:
>>
>> 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
> <mailto: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?
>>
> 
> I'm not sure how the internals work. As best as I can guess, it
> constructs the argv directly so spaces shouldn't be an issue. Spaces are
> an issue when the output is piped through, since the pipe itself knows
> no difference between filename and output spaces, hence the need to
> force zero delimiters between filenames. Since find runs the command
> directly, you shouldn't encounter this. But Ive yet to test.
> 

Your assumption is correct. exec cannot be fooled with whitespaces.

Regards,
Florian Philipp



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  reply	other threads:[~2013-09-14 19:17 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
2013-09-14  4:04                 ` Mark David Dumlao
2013-09-14 19:16                   ` Florian Philipp [this message]
2013-09-13 20:52 ` Alexander Kapshuk

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