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Re: Linux Shell Scripting

Subject Re: Linux Shell Scripting
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.misc
references <113thaht9td8nduhtjhdr9onvsfgi9cdfd@4ax.com> <slrnmht679.bj4.BitTwister@wb.home.test> <551E9AA1.1060905@notaserver.com> <slrnmht87d.i6b.BitTwister@wb.home.test>
From "Rinaldi J. Montessi" <rinaldi@notaserver.com>
organization http://www.federalist.com
message-id <551EABD0.9070808@notaserver.com>
Date 2015-04-03 10:03 -0500

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Bit Twister decreed, Read These Runes!:
> On Fri, 3 Apr 2015 08:50:25 -0500, Rinaldi J. Montessi wrote:
>> Bit Twister decreed, Read These Runes!:
>>> On Fri, 03 Apr 2015 13:52:11 +0100, gargoyle60 wrote:
>>>> What is the purpose of the "-@" component in the following...
>>>>
>>>> find "/home/user" -name "syslog_20*.log" -print | zip -mj "/home/user/syslog.zip" -@
>>>>
>>>> I assume that it represents the piped result of the find command?
>>> 
>>> Good assumption. 
>>> "man zip" has the definition of -@
>>
>> True, yet apropos \@ returns:
>>
>> ExtUtils::testlib [] (3)  - add blib/* directories to @INC
>> lib []               (3)  - manipulate @INC at compile time
>> libcaca []           (3)  - authors - Libcaca authors Sam Hocevar
>><sam@zoy.org>
>> main programmer Jean [] (3)  - Yves Lamoureux <jylam@lnxscene.org>
> 
> Ah, but gargoyle60 showed -@ was an argument to zip, therefore the
> first place to look would be in zip's man page.

Gargoyle60?  Google is not my friend with this one - unless I'm missing
something.  Not an impossibility ;-)

> If it was a general purpose command line expansion question then I suggest 
>   man $(basename $SHELL)
> with a search like
> /\@

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Linux Shell Scripting gargoyle60 <gargoyle60@example.invalid> - 2015-04-03 13:52 +0100
  Re: Linux Shell Scripting Bit Twister <BitTwister@mouse-potato.com> - 2015-04-03 13:42 +0000
    Re: Linux Shell Scripting "Rinaldi J. Montessi" <rinaldi@notaserver.com> - 2015-04-03 08:50 -0500
      Re: Linux Shell Scripting Bit Twister <BitTwister@mouse-potato.com> - 2015-04-03 14:16 +0000
        Re: Linux Shell Scripting "Rinaldi J. Montessi" <rinaldi@notaserver.com> - 2015-04-03 10:03 -0500
          Re: Linux Shell Scripting Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2015-04-03 11:19 -0400
            Re: Linux Shell Scripting "Rinaldi J. Montessi" <rinaldi@notaserver.com> - 2015-04-03 13:11 -0500
          Re: Linux Shell Scripting gargoyle60 <gargoyle60@example.invalid> - 2015-04-04 09:38 +0100
            Re: Linux Shell Scripting Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2015-04-04 09:51 +0100
              Re: Linux Shell Scripting gargoyle60 <gargoyle60@example.invalid> - 2015-04-04 09:59 +0100
      Re: Linux Shell Scripting William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2015-04-04 06:02 +0000
        Re: Linux Shell Scripting Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2015-04-04 09:08 +0100
          Re: Linux Shell Scripting "Rinaldi J. Montessi" <rinaldi@notaserver.com> - 2015-04-04 07:05 -0500

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