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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