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From: jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: GNU find and xargs port: available
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Date: 27 Nov 90 14:23:38 GMT
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My port of GNU find (ver. 2.0) and xargs is complete.

These versions, as well being a bit faster and more versatile, also support
the "NULL terminated pathname" convention, using -print0 (for find) and -0
(for xargs) so that they deal with filenames with an embedded NL (newline)
character correctly (as distributed, find prints out pathnames terminated
with a NL and xargs uses NL as it's string terminator). In special situations
and circumstances, this can create some major problems if output is piped
from find to xargs.

Anyway, a tarred and compressed version is available on jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov
(128.183.44.1) via anon-ftp. It's called GNUfind.tar.Z. As with ALL compressed
files, be sure that you change mode to IMAGE/BINARY before downloading!

Cheers!
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           Jim Jagielski                    NASA/GSFC, Code 711.1
     jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov               Greenbelt, MD 20771

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