Suggestion: how about adding -exec option?

[Raj A. Singh]

This can be helpful while processing large number of files in a directory, sufficiently large to throw "Argument list too long" error. Suppose a large number of files need to be moved or deleted from such a directory having a specific pattern.

Would it be useful to have -exec option in ack where it will execute specified command of each file matched?

[Andy Lester]

On Nov 24, 2009, at 1:58 AM, Raj A. Singh wrote:

> Would it be useful to have -exec option in ack where it will execute
> specified command of each file matched?
>
>

I've resisted going down that road. That's what xargs is for.

xoxo,
Andy


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[Elliot Shank]

Raj A. Singh wrote:
> Would it be useful to have -exec option in ack where it will execute
> specified command of each file matched?

ack -print0 -l blah | xargs -0 blarf