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Re:Ask HN: What's your speciality, and what's your "FizzBuzz... by falsedan on Thursday January 02, 2014 @07:31PM (#7003475)
breaking up the input into multiple executions is feature #1 for xargs and has been present since PWB UNIX in 1977
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Re:Ask HN: What's your speciality, and what's your "FizzBuzz... by aaronem on Thursday January 02, 2014 @10:50PM (#7004042)
Then perhaps I'm thinking of "rm -f `find ...`". In any case, thanks for pointing it out; I learned something new today.
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