2009/6/9 Joerg Schilling <joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de>:
> Mickaël Bucas <mbu...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>> > You may avoid the problem with find . -exec prog args {} +
>
>> The right way to handle any size for the list returned by "find", is
>> by using "xargs" :
>>
>> find -H /usr/lib /lib -type f | xargs -d'\n' qfile --orphans
>
> No, this is definitely wrong: the right way to handle this is execplus
> (since 19 years).
>
> Jörg

I think I was too assertive.
I prefer "xargs", and it's still handy for more elaborate command lines

Mickaël Bucas

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