[ILUG] Disadvantages of find -exec?

[Kenn Humborg]

>  > 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?
> 
> isn't that an "apples or oranges"?
> 
> I mean, you suggest that -exec is bad because it spawns a load of 
> processes
> but xargs could potentially simply not work.
> 
> drawbacks on both sides.

Nope.  xargs knows exactly how much your shell can handle and
passes as many args as possible to each run of the command.

Later,
Kenn