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lma	2010-09-14 , 22:15
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Originally Posted by daperl

That's probably why they put xargs in findutils.

Indeed, piping to xargs is generally a much better option than -exec.

busybox find + xargs = good

I think you'll find it's not, the Maemo busybox is configured with support for find -print0 but not xargs -0 :-(

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