There are some commands that turn out to be more useful than first meets the eye. In my opinion, xargs is one of those commands. It takes the standard input and uses it to build a command line. It's ...

I know it is strange, but I can assure you, the script as I posted it on the first post works (either using exec of xargs), and has been working for ages on many, many boxes (most of them CentOS) ...

I am trying to use xargs on a file containg a long list of other filenames in conjunction with another command. It will run for about a tenth of the file, then I guess it sees something that it does ...