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