Re: /bin/cat : argument list is too long

[Eric Blake]

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According to Steve Ward on 11/28/2007 8:47 PM:
>     Except that it recurses into subdirectories, while the command-line glob
>     does not.  You would also need to use -prune or the non-portable
>     -maxdepth
>     1 with find to limit results to the current directory.
>     <snip>
> 
> Why is -maxdepth 1 non-portable?

Because it is not required by POSIX, therefore, not all find
implementations have it.

http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/find.html

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