Re: bug in FIND: argument list too damn long using -exec chmod 440 {} +

[Bob Proulx]

James Youngman wrote:
> Bob Proulx <address@hidden> 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.

Ah, very good.  I have not been keeping up.  I had thought it was a
non-; flavor of ; to avoid the shell metacharacter and the need to
quote it.  Thanks for the education.  I am reading the docs in detail
now.

Bob