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Originally Posted by rsheikh

1. stdout does show per dir listing of .log files, however, the last two in iteration also show a ls -l of the directory where this script is saved. Very odd.

I think that means xargs didn't find any arguments and just ran ls -l by itself. -n999 doesn't actually stop this from happening, it only sets a maximum number of args, so seems a bit pointless.

xargs can also react badly to spaces in filenames since it takes any whitespace as the separator. You can force it to use newlines only with -d '\n' but the preferred solution, in Linux, would be to use find -print0 and xargs --null. like find "$DIR" -type f -name "*.log" |xargs ls -l Also note the extra quotes around $DIR. If there were any spaces in it, the quotes would stop it from splitting into two or more arguments.

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