[ILUG] ILUG] Disadvantages of find -exec?

[Keith Gaughan]

Brian Foster wrote:

>  "-exec ... {} +" was added to POSIX in 2001 (i.e., it's
>  relatively new and wasn't in the original 1992 version).
>  according to
>    http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/find.html
>  it apparently came from SVr4 (albeit I don't recall it).

More precisely:

    http://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/various/find/#xargs

I first came across it in FreeBSD 5, and remember finding it a godsend.

K.