MonadLUG meeting last night: Ray Cote and find, mpom,
and Ted Roche on NX server
Ted Roche
tedroche at tedroche.com
Mon Nov 27 08:40:30 EST 2006
On Sep 15, 2006, at 2:33 PM, Ted Roche wrote:
> It was Ray Côté's evening to present the "Man page of the month"
> and Ray chose the "find" command. Armed with a two-sided handout
> for us (to be posted to the wiki once polished up a bit), we review
> the basic syntax, some variants, and talked about worthwhile
> application of the command to isolate files by certain filters and
> execute further commands upon them. The technique of using -exec to
> execute directly on the files inline was contrasted with the use of
> piping or xargs to process them, and the -print0 argument for
> separating files was explained with the matching -0 argument to
> xargs to spilt filenames with spaces embedded. We all picked up a
> trick or two. Thanks, Ray!
Update: Ray's notes are posted to the wiki at:
http://wiki.gnhlug.org/twiki2/bin/view/Www/MPoMfind
Ted Roche
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