Re: Private Utilities

[belg4mit]

That's similar in utility to something I spoke about in the CB awhile back, bart said he'd like it and I started but haven't finished... It was aplopos, an apropos for your installed module base.

I have this, quotemeta for pipes e.g; find -name *.pl | quotemeta | xargs grep foo

#perl -p
s/([ '"$*?()\[\]])/\\$1/g;

And this icky URIgrep:

#perl -l -O777
$_=<>;while(m/(\w+:\/\/[-a-zA-Z0-9\$_.+!*'(),?\/\%\&=~:]+)/g){print$1;
+}

[Eimi Metamorphoumai]

I can see some uses for your quotemeta for pipes, but the use you mentioned is more easily written as

find -name \*.pl -print0 | xargs -0 grep foo

which has the advantage of quoting all nasty filename characters (for instance, new lines, tabs, etc).

[belg4mit]

If you have newlines in your filenames you've issues IMHO. As for "more easily" well, I don't find your idiom particularly intuitive (it relies upon two arcane swtiches and you're sort of repeating yourself). Besides, I don't use the tool as much as I could because it always slips my mind, the more I use it the more I'll use it :-P

It's interesting to know there's an option, maybe I'll include some variant as the default when I get around to writing the trivial wrapper that accepts arguments in the right order. POSIX be damned, find is grep-ing the filesystem and it ought to be find EXPR PATH

[thor]

Except that not all finds and xargss have this feature. The ones included with Solaris, for example.