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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: net.sources.bugs
Subject: Re: FSLS - List big files in file system - (nf)
Message-ID: <3951@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: Sun, 21-Sep-86 05:24:11 EDT
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Posted: Sun Sep 21 05:24:11 1986
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References: <14600002@siedap.UUCP> <1273@ihlpl.UUCP> <573@ih1ap.UUCP> <1271@jade.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
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In article <1271@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> mwm@eris.UUCP (Mike Meyer) writes:
-And for those of you who don't have xargs (I thought such creatures
-died after v6!), you can do:
-
-	ls -l `find / +nnn -print`
-
-Which shell facility is, of course, why I thought xargs-like things
-died after v6...

The reason "xargs" lives is that there is a limit to the total number
of bytes allowed in the arguments to a command.