Same here. 500.

find <etc> -print0 | xargs -0r <oof>

Similarly reassured. May I enter into evidence this one that I use all the time:

find . -name '*.jpg' | cpio -pld ../jpegs

Adjust the find to taste - the magic is that whatever else cpio does it can also take a newline delimited list of filenames and make a sparse, hardlinked subset of a directory

I'm still waiting for another Blue Nile album. It hasn't been that long by standards.

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