Linux equivalent to QNX's ws (walk directory structure) command?

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:

> | From: G. Matthew Rice <matt-s/rLXaiAEBtBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org>
>
> |        find <somedir or 2> -type d (maybe -depth)
> |
> | and then pipe that to xargs(1) or use the -exec option with find.  I usually
> | prefer xargs(1).  Especially if there are a lot of matches.
>
> xargs is very useful.  Too bad there isn't an xargs built into find.
> It would have the advantage of being more concise and it would avoid
> the following problem.

      The POSIX specification for find (which is implemented in the
      most recent GNU version) can use + instead of \; to terminate an
      -exec command. When terminated by +, -exec builds as long a
      command line as possible, just as xargs does. This makes xargs
      obsolete.

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