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Well, how about that! It could be that I formed my opinion regarding xargs before it got that smart, or it could be the old Red Hat boxes on which I mostly lear

by aaronem 13y ago

Well, how about that! It could be that I formed my opinion regarding xargs before it got that smart, or it could be the old Red Hat boxes on which I mostly learned my craft didn't bother compiling in that capability. Either way, I'm glad to know about it now, and thank you very kindly for pointing it out to me!

falsedan 13y ago
breaking up the input into multiple executions is feature #1 for xargs and has been present since PWB UNIX in 1977
- aaronem 13y ago
  Then perhaps I'm thinking of "rm -f `find ...`". In any case, thanks for pointing it out; I learned something new today.