Re: find question (and xargs)
> I have come at the following but it doesn't work (and can't figger
> out why not from the manpages).
>
> find / -size +459976c -noleaf -type f -name '*.deb'|\
> xargs -n 1 dpkg-split -s {} && rm {}
>
> I was thinking that {} would be replaced by the filename but that's
> not the case. Anyone know how to solve this?
The {} substitution happens only in a -exec argument;
you're using it after the find command.
Try find / -size +459976c -noleaf -type f -name '*.deb' -exec \
dpkg-split -s {} && rm {}
Ray
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