Thanks for that link. It walks through many of the same issues as the OP, but with more sophistication. It also explains "+", which is used in place of the tr

Thanks for that link. It walks through many of the same issues as the OP, but with more sophistication. It also explains "+", which is used in place of the traditional ";" to essentially get xargs type argument accumulation, but within find. That is, find . -name '*~' -exec rm {} \+ I did not know about that. It's in Mac OS 10.6 find, for one.