On Sat, 2005-01-15 at 08:10, Matt Wilson wrote:
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> daniel wrote:
> | On January 14, 2005 01:19 pm, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
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> |>On Friday 14 January 2005 07:00 am, Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> | you could probably use:
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> | $ find . -type f -maxdepth 1 -name '*gentoo*' -print0 | \
> | xargs -0 --replace mv "{}" /path/to/new/dir/
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> I'm always a little confused as to why people always jump to suggest the
> use of xargs when find's -exec works perfectly well;
>
> $ find . -type f -maxdepth 1 -name "*gentoo*" -exec mv "{}"
> /path/to/new/dir/ \;
>
> Is there any particular reason why people would recommend using xargs
> over -exec?
>
I may not be correct, but reading through xargs and some other docs,
suggest that there is a _limit_ on the # of arguments accepted on the
CLI before it gets "too many arguments"
Xargs can cut and paste the long list into a few bundles for execution.
Slide and Dice.
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