On 3/28/06, Bob Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>   Subject: bug in FIND: argument list too damn long using -exec chmod 440 {} +
>
> But that should not suffer from an argument list too long problem.
> The command is being executed one at a time for every matching file.

No, the "+" suffix makes find replace the {} with a number of
filenames.   It's a POSIX thingm and a relatively new feature for
findutils.

James.


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