On Monday 27 September 2004 16.28, Mason Loring Bliss wrote:
>
> for foo in `find . -name "something"`
Note that
$ for foo in `command outputting a list of filenames`
should *always* be replaced by
$ said command | while read foo; do ...
(Or, for trivial cases, xargs) because the for loop will not work with more
than a few hundred files.
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