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Difference between xargs and exec

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vibhor_agarwalin	Posted: Jun 6 2005, 10:55 AM
User Level: 3 Group: Members Posts: 34 Member No.: 788 Joined: 1-February 05	Hi, I have tried both the options in small dummy scripts, but somehow i can't differentiate between the two. find . -name H* -exec ls -l {} \; find . -name H* \| xargs ls -l Both work the ditto way. Any help is appreciated.

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