xargs still nok?

[zzapper]

On Thu, 08 Sep 2005 14:01:31 +0200,  wrote:

>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

Is Xargs still reqd for

find . -name '*.cfm' -exec grep -i {} \;

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