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From: geoffg@sigma21.oz.au (Geoffrey R Graham)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: Why use find? (Was: Can U pipe filenames to rm???)
Message-ID: <925@sigmawa.oz>
Date: 17 Oct 90 04:55:05 GMT
References: <1990Oct5.145825.9454@diku.dk> <1990Oct06.011438.8265@virtech.uucp> <1990Oct7.001518.14216@diku.dk> <2518@lafcol.UUCP>
Reply-To: geoffg@sigma21.oz.au
Organization: Sigma Data Corp, Western Australia
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doughert@lafcol.UUCP (Andy Dougherty) writes:
   >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.

If my memory is correct that would have been on an UniPlus+ System V.2
system.  If it was then the bug was specific to UniPlus+ and was
introduced by someone trying to fix another bug.  Both bugs should have
been fixed by now.
-- 
Geoff Graham
Sigma Data Corporation                                   geoffg@sigma21.oz.au
Western Australia                 Phone +61 9 321 1116     FAX +61 9 321 9178