[Discuss] xargs guide

Daniel Hagerty hag at linnaean.org
Fri Jul 31 22:47:10 EDT 2015


John Abreau <abreauj at gmail.com> writes:

> When I use find(1) and xargs(1), by default I always use something like
>
>     find . -xdev ...... -print0 | xargs -0 ....

    Newer find programs directly support this idiom with

find . -exec foo {} +



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