[ILUG] Disadvantages of find -exec?

[Niall O Broin]

On 13 Jan 2009, at 15:42, Pádraig Brady wrote:

> Braun Brelin wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Note there are actually 2 `find -exec` variants.
>
> find -exec command {} ';'
> find -exec command {} '+'
>
> The later is new and specified by POSIX, and
> is equivalent to `find -print0 | xargs -r0`

Well, I sit corrected - I assumed that that was such a useful addon to  
find, it must have been GNU inspired, as very many useful addons to  
old Unix standards are.


Niall