Comments on: [one-liner]: Copying & Moving Files efficiently with xargs http://www.lamolabs.org/blog/2745/one-liner-copying-moving-files-efficiently-with-xargs/ Lame Oh Labs .... Linux & Tech! Is there anything else? Tue, 22 Jun 2010 19:43:51 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: slmingol http://www.lamolabs.org/blog/2745/one-liner-copying-moving-files-efficiently-with-xargs/comment-page-1/#comment-553 slmingol Fri, 18 Dec 2009 01:50:55 +0000 http://www.lamolabs.org/blog/?p=2745#comment-553 That's a terrific point. Thanks for bringing it up. I've gotten out of the habit of using spaces in files & directories but if you run this on a filesystem that does have files with spaces and/or a directory that may include files from a windows system then odds are you may run into files with spaces. Thanks! That’s a terrific point. Thanks for bringing it up. I’ve gotten out of the habit of using spaces in files & directories but if you run this on a filesystem that does have files with spaces and/or a directory that may include files from a windows system then odds are you may run into files with spaces. Thanks!

]]> By: Rodrigo http://www.lamolabs.org/blog/2745/one-liner-copying-moving-files-efficiently-with-xargs/comment-page-1/#comment-552 Rodrigo Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:04:11 +0000 http://www.lamolabs.org/blog/?p=2745#comment-552 find . -type f -ctime -1 | xargs cp -t /some/other/directory theres a problem with that command wich is revealed if you try to copy files with spaces in their names, just add -0 option to xargs find . -type f -ctime -1 | xargs -0 cp -t /some/other/directory find . -type f -ctime -1 | xargs cp -t /some/other/directory

theres a problem with that command wich is revealed if you try to copy files with spaces in their names, just add -0 option to xargs

find . -type f -ctime -1 | xargs -0 cp -t /some/other/directory

]]> By: slmingol http://www.lamolabs.org/blog/2745/one-liner-copying-moving-files-efficiently-with-xargs/comment-page-1/#comment-508 slmingol Fri, 16 Oct 2009 05:35:03 +0000 http://www.lamolabs.org/blog/?p=2745#comment-508 Yup know all about find's -exec switch. The problem with -exec is that it gets called everytime find finds a file. So for example if find finds 10,000 files, it would literally call -exec 10,000 times. This is what I was trying to avoid by leveraging xargs. By using xargs you in effect are minimizing the number of times you'll be calling the body of what gets called in the -exec argument to find. Yup know all about find’s -exec switch. The problem with -exec is that it gets called everytime find finds a file. So for example if find finds 10,000 files, it would literally call -exec 10,000 times. This is what I was trying to avoid by leveraging xargs. By using xargs you in effect are minimizing the number of times you’ll be calling the body of what gets called in the -exec argument to find.

]]> By: Vincent http://www.lamolabs.org/blog/2745/one-liner-copying-moving-files-efficiently-with-xargs/comment-page-1/#comment-507 Vincent Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:19:26 +0000 http://www.lamolabs.org/blog/?p=2745#comment-507 you should look into the -exec flag in find you should look into the -exec flag in find

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