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CHALLENGEROption #1: There is no need to use tar or xargs to accomplish this task. It can be performed in it's entirety by the 'find' command. Assuming you have used a command like shown in the answer for question #8 to find all files in /etc/ modified by a particular GUI change, you could modify the command to copy all the located files to your current directory using the following form: find /etc/ -type f -cnewer ~/stamp --exec cp {} . \; ''- Gregory Masseau''
