[pacman-dev] [PATCH] makepkg: improve srcdir check and add pkgdir

Nathan Wayde disposaboy at konnichi.com
Wed Sep 29 09:31:01 EDT 2010


On 29/09/10 13:51, Allan McRae wrote:
> [...]
>>
>> just pipe it through xargs, something like `find "${pkgdir}" -type f
>> -print0 | xargs -0 grep -m 1 -q "${pkgdir}"`
>
> Doesn't that suffer from the same issue with potentially exceeding the
> maximum number of parameters?
>

no, the list is passed in via the pipe as opposed to actual argument, 
xargs then spits them out in smaller numbers

>> it's a lot faster than calling grep over and over. I added the `-m 1` so
>> it stops searching after the first match.
>
> Check out what the -q flag does... :P
>

duh *facepalm*

> Allan
>
>



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