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
July 2015 featured book: Rapid Learning for the 21st Century
http://www.troubleshooters.com/rl21
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