03-19-2012
AIX 5.3 by default only has 4K for argument expansion, which can result in Argument/Parameter list too long errors when processing quite short parameter strings.
I'm almost sure that xargs would be required in the above script, depending on the actual length of /path/to/files and the current value of the ncargs OS parameter.
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