Apparently, though unproven, at 01:03 on Thursday 18 November 2010, Adam Carter did opine thusly:
> > > find /patch -name something -exec -ls -lS + > > > which runs ls -lS once against all the files that find finds (added as > > > additional arguments), and therefore Sort works. > > > > Almost right. > > > > -exec + will not append all filenames found and run one command, > > > > it will append the maximum number of filenames that do not exceed the > > shell command line limit, and do that enough times to get through all > > the filenames. > > Thanks for that Alan. I wasnt 100% sure I understood the man page, and that > issue could definitely bite if you weren't aware! It bit me many times :-) If you know about it already, the man page of course makes perfect sense. Such a pity it's not totally clear to those who don;t know about it already. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
