https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/03/03/linux-magic/ Mon, 03 Mar 2008 20:02:35 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/03/03/linux-magic/#comment-4692 Mon, 03 Mar 2008 20:02:35 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/03/03/linux-magic/#comment-4692 Beware the power of xargs.sed -e ‘s/(.)//1/g’ -e ‘s/^/words/’ /usr/dict/words | xargs mkdir -p

]]> https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/03/03/linux-magic/#comment-4691 Mon, 03 Mar 2008 19:50:52 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/03/03/linux-magic/#comment-4691 The other nice thing about -p is that it doesn’t complain if the target exists. This makes it very useful in situations where you want to ensure a directory is there and you don’t want to deal separately with the case where it is vs. the one where it isn’t.

]]> https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/03/03/linux-magic/#comment-4690 Mon, 03 Mar 2008 19:19:35 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/03/03/linux-magic/#comment-4690 Yet another major security hole in windows exposed!

]]> https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/03/03/linux-magic/#comment-4689 Mon, 03 Mar 2008 18:44:23 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/03/03/linux-magic/#comment-4689 On the other hand, windows doesn’t let you use ‘?’ or several other characters.

]]> https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/03/03/linux-magic/#comment-4688 Mon, 03 Mar 2008 18:34:58 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/03/03/linux-magic/#comment-4688 For the record, Windows does this magically — without the need for -p.Just saying.

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