[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.
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Cheers,
Josh
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