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No, and it uses more processes.  No overflow issue there. I've used just 
that type of script from /.

You could save yourself some processing by modifying your solution as:

find ....| while read orig_path
do
...
done


But feel free to use the substandard solution you've chosen. :)

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey


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