09-20-2014
Quote:
Originally Posted by
LinQ
@Corona688:
Curious!
Was wondering why
find | ... seemed content with just moseying over to recurse whatever is on the dir with it. Thought your
find / -depth | ... was indicative of yet another syntactical secret handshake which seems to permeate the bash world...
So, is my syntax correct as
find | ... to simply rummage the folder(s) on the immediate dir, or does convention call for a different approach? If OK, would running your snippet with
find -depth | ... fit the bill for a quick recurse through local folders only?
---------- Post updated at 08:57 PM ---------- Previous update was at 05:49 PM ----------
O -- one more quick question:
I've seen sed parameters both quoted and not in a pipe context. Both seem to work well... Is there a governing convention for this?
Thanks again --
The standard syntax for the
find utility requires one or more pathname operands. Some implementations of
find provide a pathname operand of
. if you do not supply any pathname operands.
If there are any whitespace characters in your
sed parameters or any other characters that have a special meaning in the shell, you have to quote those characters to keep the shell from modifying them before passing those parameters to
sed.
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LEARN ABOUT OPENDARWIN
shar
SHAR(1) BSD General Commands Manual SHAR(1)
NAME
shar -- create a shell archive of files
SYNOPSIS
shar file ...
DESCRIPTION
shar writes an sh(1) shell script to the standard output which will recreate the file hierarchy specified by the command line operands.
Directories will be recreated and must be specified before the files they contain (the find(1) utility does this correctly).
shar is normally used for distributing files by ftp(1) or mail(1).
SEE ALSO
compress(1), mail(1), uuencode(1), tar(1)
BUGS
shar makes no provisions for special types of files or files containing magic characters.
EXAMPLES
To create a shell archive of the program ls(1) and mail it to Rick:
cd ls
shar `find . -print` | mail -s "ls source" rick
To recreate the program directory:
mkdir ls
cd ls
...
<delete header lines and examine mailed archive>
...
sh archive
HISTORY
The shar command appears in 4.4BSD.
SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS
It is easy to insert trojan horses into shar files. It is strongly recommended that all shell archive files be examined before running them
through sh(1). Archives produced using this implementation of shar may be easily examined with the command:
egrep -v '^[X#]' shar.file
4.4BSD June 6, 1993 4.4BSD