[cairo] Test programs extension
Behdad Esfahbod
behdad at behdad.org
Thu Dec 7 09:26:26 PST 2006
On Thu, 2006-12-07 at 17:11 +0100, Jean-Baptiste Note wrote:
> Hello,
>
> The ls *.log trick does not work as bash expands the '*.log' argument
> before passing it to the ls program.
>
> The standard trick is to use only bash built-ins, for instance this should work:
>
> echo *.log | xargs rm -f
No, not at all. The limitation is in the shell, so as long as you have
*.log, it's the same. The very correct solution is:
find . -maxdepth 1 -name '*.log' | xargs rm -f
and the very safe solution using GNU tools is:
find . -maxdepth 1 -name '*.log' -print0 | xargs -0 rm -f
But as I said, I already fixed this problem. The thread is becoming
really off-topic :).
> xargs takes care of splitting the command-line argument for you.
>
> JB
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