Re: Did I found a bug in "ls"?

[Philip Rowlands]

On Tue, 10 Mar 2009, Major Péter wrote:

> But here is some list-related problems of mine:
> ls:
> If it has a null parameter e.g. in
> "find blah -print0 | xargs -0 ls" find gives no hit,
> the ls writes on the output (maybe on error output, I'm not sure) a message, 
> that incorrect argumentum has camed, BUT it still writes out the content of a 
> normal ls, and the exit status is 0. So that's why I need to check first, that 
> the find output whether null is or not...

See the --no-run-if-empty argument to xargs.


Cheers,
Phil