Why use find? (Was: Can U pipe filenames to rm???)
Andy Dougherty
doughert at lafcol.UUCP
Thu Oct 11 02:08:21 AEST 1990
> find with -exec vs. find -print | xargs
One problem with xargs is that even if it is present on a particular
system, it might not work. I used one system (SysVR2) where xargs
occassionally dropped the last argument. I never had the time to get
it all sorted out, but I never used xargs for anything critical.
--Andy Dougherty
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