Why use find? (Was: Can U pipe filenames to rm???)

[Conor P. Cahill]

In article <2518 at lafcol.UUCP> doughera at lafayett.bitnet (Andy Dougherty) writes:
>> 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.

Does this mean that if you find a system with a bug in the compiler you
will never use a C compiler again?  

When you find a bug, report it to the vendor (yes, you can yell at them)
work around it if possible, or replace it with some suitable substitute.  
However, don't think that since there is one bug in one implementation
of a program that it will always be there in any implementation.


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