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| From | Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.debian.user |
| Subject | Re: Printing lots of pages skips a few |
| Date | 2022-02-01 13:30 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <DM0sh-Di-3@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
| References | <DLXNL-7lF-1@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| Organization | linux.* mail to news gateway |
On Tue, Feb 01, 2022 at 03:04:06PM +0530, Pankaj Jangid wrote:
> I tried to print ~40 pages using the following combination of commands:
>
> find . -name "pref***.pdf" | xargs lp
>
> The result was that a couple of pages were missed.
That command is fundamentally broken. It will fail if any of the
matching filenames contain whitespace, single quotes or double quotes.
A correct version would be:
find . -name "pref*.pdf" -exec lp {} +
That's the preferred one. If you're really old-fashioned and just cannot
live without xargs, the first thing you must realize is that POSIX xargs
is fundamentally incapable of doing this correctly. GNU xargs has a -0
extension, though, which makes it possible:
find . -name "pref*.pdf" -print0 | xargs -0 lp
That one is acceptable, albeit longer, less efficient and less portable.
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Printing lots of pages skips a few Pankaj Jangid <pankaj@codeisgreat.org> - 2022-02-01 10:40 +0100
Re: Printing lots of pages skips a few Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2022-02-01 13:30 +0100
Re: Printing lots of pages skips a few Pankaj Jangid <pankaj@codeisgreat.org> - 2022-02-01 18:20 +0100
Re: Printing lots of pages skips a few Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2022-02-01 19:10 +0100
Re: Printing lots of pages skips a few Pankaj Jangid <pankaj@codeisgreat.org> - 2022-02-02 11:50 +0100
Re: Printing lots of pages skips a few Klaus Singvogel <deb-user-ml@singvogel.net> - 2022-02-01 21:40 +0100
Re: Printing lots of pages skips a few Pankaj Jangid <pankaj@codeisgreat.org> - 2022-02-02 11:50 +0100
Re: Printing lots of pages skips a few Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2022-02-02 15:00 +0100
Re: Printing lots of pages skips a few Pankaj Jangid <pankaj@codeisgreat.org> - 2022-02-03 05:50 +0100
Re: Printing lots of pages skips a few David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2022-02-02 18:10 +0100
Re: Printing lots of pages skips a few Pankaj Jangid <pankaj@codeisgreat.org> - 2022-02-03 05:50 +0100
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