Why use find? (Was: Can U pipe filenames to rm???)

Andy Dougherty doughert at lafcol.UUCP
Thu Oct 11 02:08:21 AEST 1990


> 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



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