On Sat, 2007-01-20 at 18:45 +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <quote who="Del">
> 
> > So the way around that is, when you hit that problem, replace this:
> > 
> > for file in *; do
> 
> > with this:
> > 
> > ls | while read file; do
> 
> ls? Madness. Use find(1). :-)
> 


Why? does that overcome the bash size limitation?

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