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Date:	Thu, 08 Sep 2005 14:01:31 +0200
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Subject:	Re: xargs still nok?
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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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