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Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:03:33 -0400
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From: Daniel Underwood <djuatdelta@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Problem with bash script
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> $  find ./ -name "*.pem" -exec cp {} /usr/home/tmp/something \;

I'm a novice with shell scripting myself, but what's the difference
between that code and some variant thereof using a pipe and "xargs"?
Are they simply two different ways of achieving the same result?  Or
is there some more important difference I may be overlooking?

Thanks,
Daniel