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From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org>
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Subject: Re: long string using find and "-exec ls -ls" to find part-of filename
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On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 11:45:06AM -1000, Parv wrote:
> 
> If only one command to be run for each file, then xargs can be used
> with "-n" option to specify "the maximum number of arguments taken
> from standard input for each invocation" ...
> 
>   find ... | xargs -n 1 command ...
> 
> 
	how about whitespace?  ls -lsi appears as two cmds, so would
	it work as you  have with backtics?

	find ... | xargs -n 1 `ls -lsi` 


> 

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