Paul Jakma wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Sep 2004, Kenn Humborg wrote:
>>> find . -name \*.scf -o -name \*.ab1 | xargs cp --target ./final_folder
>>>> cp's --target-directory option was added to make it xargs-friendly.
>>> why not:
>> find . \(-name '*.scf' -o name '*.ab1'\) -a -exec cp {} <final dir>\;
>> ?
>> I'm sure xargs is great and all that, but what's the point of it exactly
> when ye good olde POSIX find has -exec? ;)
Because in this example, there are 100,000 cp processes started.
Pádraig.
>> regards,
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