Yes!  I love xargs, because of its power, but prefer -exec because xargs
seems to freak out with blank spaces.  I'll read today!

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On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 6:44 PM, Steve Litt <slitt@troubleshooters.com>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> xargs is a gender-changer type program that adapts one program's stdout
> to the next program's command line arguments. It's extremely handy for
> shell scripting, but it can be tricky. I've written a short guide for
> xargs that shows how to get around the usual xargs landmines:
>
> http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/xargs.htm
>
> Hope you like it.
>
> SteveT
>
> Steve Litt
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> http://www.troubleshooters.com/rl21
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