Subject: Re: Need help creating a large etags file
From: [email-masked] ("Mikey")

15 Apr 1997 22:23:02 -0700
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try etags `find . -name \*.[csh] -printf "%P "`

at least it worked for me with ctags

see find.info or find.1.gz for different args

> 
> 	etags `gfind . -name '*.[csh]' -print`
> 
> But this doesn't work on my NT system.  I have since tried:
> 
> 	gfind . -name '*.[csh]' -print |xargs etags
> 
> This almost worked, but then I found out that xargs was
> terminating my gfind output after a certain (large) amount
> of filenames.  Can anyone offer some other suggestions?
> 

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