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Re: recursive globbing, filename spaces and xargs

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From: Christian Schneider <strcat@xxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: recursive globbing, filename spaces and xargs
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 01:51:52 +0100
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* William Scott <wgscott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> typed:
> One of the things that I haven't been able to figure
> out is how to deal with the error one gets when using
> 
> ls **/*
> 
> on a well-populated directory with lots of subdirectories.
> 
> zsh: argument list too long
> 
> If I do this when there are no filename spaces, it works:
> 
> echo **/*  | xargs ls
> 
> but if there are spaces, it fails, and I can't seem to figure
> out how to quote or escape the spaces.

You can use `zargs' to do this:
 $ autoload -U zargs
 $ zargs -- ls **/*
Read ``less ${^fpath}/zargs(N)'' for more details. HTH.
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