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Re: xargs still nok?
- From: ericblake at comcast dot net (Eric Blake)
- To: zzapper <david at tvis dot co dot uk>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 15:38:24 +0000
- Subject: Re: xargs still nok?
> thnx everybody for xargs tutorial (bit of a strange beast xargs!).
> Here's the crux of the matter ISFAIUI
>
> if you want to pipe the o/p of find then xargs will 'regulate' the flow of
> filenames
>
> if you use the -exec method that is inherently on a per file basis so does not
> require xargs but
> with a speed penalty for a large number of files
You missed a point - the relatively new POSIX-mandated find
`-exec utility {} +' form does the same thing as basic xargs, and
with one less process, so it is even faster than piping find to xargs.
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Eric Blake
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