The reason for this I think is so that one gets accurate totals, as the following will only give subtotals for each invocation of wc, if there are enough files to make the cmd line go above the max len.
find -print0 | xargs --null wc Might be worth adding text to that affect, as I needed to think for a minute for the reason. That same can be said for du, or any command that produces totals. cheers, Pádraig. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
