Re: about imports and cvs update

[Spiro Trikaliotis]

Hello Harry,

* On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 05:48:12PM -0500 Harry Putnam wrote:
> Spiro Trikaliotis <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> >> The find command is flexible enough to do most of the work itself:
> >> 
> >> $ find . -type d \( -name CVS -prune -o -print0 \) | xargs -0 -n 10 cvs 
> >> add --
> >> 
> >> and this variation should be safe regardless of what crazy characters
> >> are present in filenames.
> >
> > Thank you!
> 
> I like it but:
> Now you've stepped away from readability a slight bit in my opinion.

This might be, but I am sure that the version with -print0 is "safer"
than mimiking the same with the "tr \\n \\0" command. The latter tries
to insert the null bytes after they have been generated. I am not
completely sure if I did not overlook any case where we could already
have an enter in a file name (is this possible on any platform)?

 
> I think maybe the double grep -v is a bit more obvious. I know its not
> really considered kosher by old unix hands...

The double grep was especially needed as I was not completely sure how
many backslashes I needed to quote, and I was too lazy to try out. ;)

 
> I've used both -prune and -print0 but don't often find need of it.  In
> fact, only rarely.

I use -print0 almost always with I pipe it through xargs (with -0), and
I would advise to do so whenever possible.

Best regards,
   Spiro.

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