[ILUG] Disadvantages of find -exec?

Josh Glover jmglov at gmail.com
Tue Jan 13 15:13:17 GMT 2009


2009/1/13 Kenn Humborg <kenn at bluetree.ie>:

> Nope.  xargs knows exactly how much your shell can handle and
> passes as many args as possible to each run of the command.

Yes, that is what I was trying to communicate, albeit slightly
unsuccessfully. :)

xargs is one of those commands that, once you learn of it, you wonder
how you ever did without.

-- 
Cheers,
Josh



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