Vim Creep - Hackdot

Re:Vim Creep by greyfade on Thursday July 12, 2012 @03:57PM (#4236420)

Instead of using `grep "(1)"`, use the `-s` switch:

    $ apropos -s1 copy
    bsdcpio (1)          - copy files to and from archives
    cp (1)               - copy files and directories
    dd (1)               - convert and copy a file
    ....

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Re:Vim Creep by barrkel on Thursday July 12, 2012 @04:00PM (#4236443)

I think it's better to use grep. Knowing the options to apropos has very low value. Knowing grep has lots and lots of value.

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Re:Vim Creep by tomp on Thursday July 12, 2012 @04:33PM (#4236627)

I agree. I have no idea how to use `find`. I always do `find . | grep whatever`, since I know the basics of grep.

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Re:Vim Creep by Dobbs on Thursday July 12, 2012 @07:56PM (#4237482)

Learning find is a worthy investment.

    find ./ -name "*.log" -size +2G -ctime +3 | xargs -P 8 gzip

Will find all log files over 2 gigs and older than 3 days. Then it will gzip them split across 8 parallel gzip processes.

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