On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 5:04 AM, Girish Venkatachalam
<girishvenkatacha...@gmail.com> wrote:
> $ find /etc | xargs vi
...
> $ find /etc -type f | xargs vi

This command will not work if you have filenames with spaces.

Recommended that you null terminate your strings like this to
handle such cases:

find /etc -type f -print0 | xargs -0 vi

- Raja
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