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- Subject: [Discuss] xargs guide
- From: bill.n1vux at gmail.com (Bill Ricker)
- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2015 23:04:31 -0400
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On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 10:47 PM, Daniel Hagerty <hag at linnaean.org> wrote:
> Newer find programs directly support this idiom with
>
> find . -exec foo {} +
| xargs has advantages over -exec.
+ Can take multiple files per exec if supported, e.g. 'rm', massively
reducing the exec() overhead.
+ can work with sources of filenames other than find
--
Bill Ricker
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