Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:53:41 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: argument list too long Message-ID: <20080227145341.GA4419@kobe.laptop> In-Reply-To: <20080227142153.73b5a680@gumby.homeunix.com.> References: <20080227100132.G1831@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <47C52A64.5000701@locolomo.org> <20080227111551.GA2403@kobe.laptop> <20080227142153.73b5a680@gumby.homeunix.com.>
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On 2008-02-27 14:21, RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:15:51 +0200 Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> > one can easily write:
> >
> > find . -name '*.ogg' | \
> > while read file ; do \
> > blah "${file}"
> > done
>
> If blah is interactive, it will try to take its input from the pipe
> instead of the terminal. Is there a way around this? (I know xargs can
> handle it with -o)
You can use /dev/tty as input in the loop iteration:
find . -name '*.ogg' | \
while read file ; do \
blah "${file}" < /dev/tty ; \
done
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