Re: Error 0403-027 The parameter list is too long?

v1_0_at_my-deja.com writes:

Hi!

> 4) write a script to do the command on each file
> for filename in `ls`
> do
> if [ $filename .some test to make sure right file. ]
> then
> echo "Doing 'command' to $filename"
> command $filename ....
> fi
> done

Why not use xargs?

find /mypath/ -name "*.dbf" | xargs command

Stephan.

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