Re: Enhancement request for 'locate'
Bernhard Voelker <[email protected]>
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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