[PLUG] find | grep | xargs ...

[Matt Whiteley]

On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 20:55, David Fleck wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, Matt Whiteley wrote:
> > From my testing it appears to be because of the underscore
> > character not parsing through xargs properly.
> 
> Are you sure about this?  I just tried the following:
> dcf>$ find . | grep DS_Store | xargs ls -l
> -rw-r--r--  1 dcf  dcf  0 Mar  4 20:52 ./DS_Store
> 
> the command itself seems OK.  Are you sure there isn't something going on
> like your 'rm' command being aliased to something weird?
> 
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> David Fleck
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'alias' doesn't return anything with rm involved.  As far as I know it
is not aliased to something else.

thanks,

-- 
Matt Whiteley <matt-whiteley at attbi.com>