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Old 06-21-2010
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Originally Posted by MrEddy
Yea see that works the problem is I have no way to limit what find picks for files.
You have lots of ways. I listed a half dozen and told you where to find more.

using find plus xargs, or find -exec, will never hit 'too many arguments' anyway since it avoids the problem entirely.

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