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From: Roger Peppe rog@ohm...
Subject: [9fans] Find command
Date: Mon,  7 Sep 98 13:31:06 +0100

> it's limited to TSTKSIZ*BY2PG during the transfer between images,
> but it would be better to remove the restriction than to reinstate xargs.

actually, i would have thought that xargs (in its most simple incarnation)
would be more useful and reliable under plan 9 than unix, as at least
you're guaranteed that filenames don't have spaces in them.

at least it means when doing a large recursive grep, there's a reasonable
probability that it'll find something before traversing the entire
directory tree...

  rog.