Timeline for How to open multiple files from `find` output?
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| Dec 14, 2012 at 16:59 | comment | added | derobert | Also, though it doesn't apply in this case, -print0 | xargs -0 has the problem that stdin has been gobbled up, and is no longer attached to the terminal. A problem if you're trying to use a text-mode editor. | |
| Aug 14, 2012 at 0:23 | review | Low quality posts | |||
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| Nov 28, 2010 at 15:34 | comment | added | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' | This won't work if the file name contains special characters (whitespace or \'"), because xargs requires its input to be quoted in a way that find doesn't produce. Either use find … -print0 | xargs -0 …, or use the simpler find … -exec … {} +. | |
| Nov 28, 2010 at 15:20 | history | answered | pbm | CC BY-SA 2.5 |