[ILUG] Disadvantages of find -exec?

[Josh Glover]

2009/1/13 Braun Brelin <bbrelin at gmail.com>:

> A few days ago I saw a thread regarding find where someone stated that using
> find with -exec was a bad idea and to use -xargs instead.
> Can someone give me some opinions as to what specifically is the drawback of
> -exec with find?  Just curious.

The main one that I can see is that -exec spawns a new process for
each file, whereas xargs spawns one process for as many files as the
shell can handle (have you ever seen your shell tell you that the
command is too long?).

Any other drawbacks that people know of?

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Cheers,
Josh