Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mtxinu!shore
From: shore@mtxinu.COM (Melinda Shore)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Can anyone show me a simpler way:
Message-ID: <1377@mtxinu.UUCP>
Date: 22 Oct 90 17:39:47 GMT
References: <40852@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> <1990Oct18.163200.2151@oct1.UUCP>
Reply-To: shore@mtxinu.com (Melinda Shore)
Organization: mt Xinu, Berkeley
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In article <1990Oct18.163200.2151@oct1.UUCP> mason@oct1.UUCP (David Mason) writes:
>How about
>
>find . -name \*.Z -print | xargs uncompress

Or

find . -name '*.Z' -exec uncompress {} \;

I've seen plenty of systems that don't have xargs, but I've never seen
find without an -exec option.
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Melinda Shore                                 shore@mtxinu.com
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