[clue-tech] question on commands

Thu Mar 10 12:22:53 MST 2005

On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 07:42:22 -0700
Dave Brown wrote:

> find . -name application.properties | xargs vi

Why pipe the find output through xargs when the -exec option is there in
find?

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