Re: 2.1.131: some quality thoughts

Mirian Crzig Lennox (mirian@xensei.com)
18 Dec 1998 12:46:24 -0500

shields@msrl.com (Michael Shields) writes:
> In article <m3hfuucn00.fsf@trantor.cosmic.com>,
> Mirian Crzig Lennox <mirian@xensei.com> wrote:
> > Agreed... also, embarrassing as it is to admit in this day and age of
> > gigabyte-RAM computers, commands such as "rm 'find . | grep core'"
> > will tend to fail on large source trees due to "arg limit exceeded".
>
> Study:
> find . -type f -name core -print0 | xargs -0 rm -f

Well, yeah. But that only proves my point.

-- 
Mirian Crzig Lennox                                Systems Anarchist
          "There's a New World Order coming every minute.
                      Make mine extra cheese."


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