Re: geting some file stat

[Johnny Billquist <bqt%softjar.se@localhost>]

Ronald Roskens skrev:
> On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 23:39 +0100, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> > Aleksey Cheusov skrev:
> > > > Thanks all for your help,
> > > > indeed 
> > > > stat -f "%Mp%Lp:%u:%g:%N"
> > > > does the trick
> > > > On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 02:26:10PM -0600, Robby Griffin wrote:
> > >  >> Don't forget you can stat multiple files, too:
> > >  >>
> > >  >> stat -f "%N %u %g %Mp%Lp" filename1 filename2 ...
> > >
> > > > but I have a *large* number of files.. and would expect a shell error
> > > > using them all on one line...
> > > cat file_list.txt | xargs stat -f "%N %u %g %Mp%Lp"
> > And of course that *will* be a problem if he has a large number of files, since 
> > there are limits on how long lines are acceptable...
>
> No there won't be a problem with a large number of files. Xargs knows
> how to handle these things. It uses the sysconf _SC_ARG_MAX to set a
> maximum buffer allowed for the command + arguments. If you want to set
> it to something smaller, you can specify it on the commandline with -s
> <size>.

Hey! That was a new one to me. Very nice!
You learn new something every day... :-)

        Johnny

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