FSLS - List big files in file system - (nf)

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <1271 at jade.BERKELEY.EDU> mwm at eris.UUCP (Mike Meyer) writes:
-And for those of you who don't have xargs (I thought such creatures
-died after v6!), you can do:
-
-	ls -l `find / +nnn -print`
-
-Which shell facility is, of course, why I thought xargs-like things
-died after v6...

The reason "xargs" lives is that there is a limit to the total number
of bytes allowed in the arguments to a command.