Question

ls -1 *.php | xargs php -l doesn’t work, any clues why ? (it only checks the first file)

I am trying to detect parse errors in my whole application.

Thank you.

EDIT:

Came up with this, it is sufficient for my needs:

#!/bin/sh

for chave in `find . | grep .php` ; do 
    php -l $chave
done

Answer 1

find . -name '*.php' -print0 | xargs -0 -L 1 php -l

This has the added bonus of working no matter what characters your filenames contain. Unfortunately I’m not sure why it’s not working without the -L 1 part 🙁