Re: [PLUG] CLI for "find" text string in an unknown file

[Matthew Rosewarne <mrosewarne@inoutbox.com>]

On Thursday 16 October 2008, Tim Allen wrote:
> Example, to delete a bunch of files from such a directory (don't try this
> at home if you're not sure of what you're doing!):
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> find ./* | xargs rm
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> Another trick I use to automatically compress uploaded images (requires
> ImageMagick) that our field technicians failed to use an automated program
> to resize / compress:
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> find ./ -size "+200k" | xargs mogrify -quality 60 -geometry 600x10000

Unless you know you won't have any files with spaces in their names, you 
should use:
	find {things} -print0 | xargs -0 {command}

Otherwise any spaces in file names will confuse xargs.

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