[H-GEN] Mega documentation and distro server. Was: Idea for journalling filesystems

[Christopher Biggs]

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Jason Parker-Burlingham <jasonp at panix.com> moved upon the face of the 'Net and spake thusly:

>> What's uncompelling about:
>>     find -type f | xargs grep 'blah'
>
> I'm not particularly fond of xargs, I guess.  
>
Never used SCO unix, eh?  (In which case, you have my envy...).

Certain versions of SCO have a limit of 1024 characters on command
line length.  Many simple oneliners, even as basic as "cp *.c /some/backup/dir" 
fail because the glob expansion is too long!  
In this situation, xargs truly becomes Your Best Friend.

--cjb


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