Re: Enhancement request for 'locate'

Bernhard Voelker <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.findutils.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 4/22/24 23:18, James Youngman wrote:
>>
>> locate-ls() {
>>     locate -0 "$@" | xargs -0 ls -ld
>> }
>>
> I'd suggest using -r there also, so that if no files are found, the user
> doesn't get a surprising listing of just "." (with its mod-time and so
> forth).

$ xargs --help | grep empty
   -r, --no-run-if-empty        if there are no arguments, then do not run COMMAND;

Good point, thanks.

Have a nice day,
Berny
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