On 30Jan2007 16:43, Steve Friedman steve@adsi-m4.com wrote: | Note, that find also solves another problem: namely, that if the globbing | generates a line length beyond the max for bash (in either the for or the | concatenation), then the script will fail. This won't happen with find.
That's pretty big. Note that the for loop is _not_ subject to the command line exec argument length limit, because no program is being exec()ed.