[ILUG] Disadvantages of find -exec?

Braun Brelin bbrelin at gmail.com
Tue Jan 13 14:40:03 GMT 2009


Hi all,

A few days ago I saw a thread regarding find where someone stated that using
find with -exec was a bad idea and to use -xargs instead.
Can someone give me some opinions as to what specifically is the drawback of
-exec with find?  Just curious.

Thanks,

Braun



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