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>>>I have been gently reminded that use of 'xargs' in
>>>conjunction with 'find' (piped output) is vastly superior to
>>>use of the '-exec' option of 'find' alone. This is in line
>>>with the core Unix approach of "software tools", and I agree
>>>whole-heartedly. (The problem is one of exec'ing a new
>>>process for every found file using
actually it is a fork and exec otherwise the find process would go away ... fork is significantly more expensive than exec btw...always has been back to the old dupreg()
on this list, however, this installment will seem like spam I'm sure
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