Can anyone show me a simpler way:

Melinda Shore shore at mtxinu.COM
Tue Oct 23 03:39:47 AEST 1990


In article <1990Oct18.163200.2151 at oct1.UUCP> mason at 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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