xargs still nok?
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Thu Sep 8 12:23:00 GMT 2005
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Sep 8 10:26, zzapper wrote:
>
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>GNU xargs version 4.2.25
>>
>>or more likely am I misusing xargs?
>>
>>$ ls *.cfm */*.cfm */*/*.cfm */*/*/*.cfm | xargs grep -i host
>>bash: /usr/bin/ls: Argument list too long
>>
>>
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Nothing to do with xargs. Use find instead of ls/w wildcards.
>
>
yes, you should rather write
$ find . -name "*.cfm" -print0 | xargs -0 grep -i host
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