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From: doughert@lafcol.UUCP (Andy Dougherty)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: Why use find? (Was: Can U pipe filenames to rm???)
Message-ID: <2518@lafcol.UUCP>
Date: 10 Oct 90 16:08:21 GMT
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Reply-To: doughera@lafayett.bitnet (Andy Dougherty)
Organization: Lafayette College, Easton PA
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> 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