Globbing (was Re: HAMMER update 10-Feb-2008)

Tue Feb 12 03:11:17 PST 2008

Michael Neumann wrote:
I use xargs very often. I'd like to have a special pipe (lets assume 
it's called "|/" here) that works like xargs built-in.

find . -name "*.c" |/ rm -f "%"

Hehe, I'm not serious, but if this would be a built-in feature of 
/bin/sh, everyone would use it and no one would argue for increasing the
execv limit ;-)
what's wrong with xargs, again?  xargs is part of POSIX as well.

cheers
  simon
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