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From: Scott Schwartz schwartz@bio...
Subject: [9fans] Find command
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 1998 17:20:25 -0400

"Tom Duff" <td@pix...> writes:
| or, since ls already loops over its arguments

The main pitfall of the backquote operatator is that there's a limit on
the size of argv. Hence xargs.