On 13 Jan 2009, at 15:42, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> Braun Brelin wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>>> 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.
>> Note there are actually 2 `find -exec` variants.
>> find -exec command {} ';'
> find -exec command {} '+'
>> The later is new and specified by POSIX, and
> is equivalent to `find -print0 | xargs -r0`
Well, I sit corrected - I assumed that that was such a useful addon to
find, it must have been GNU inspired, as very many useful addons to
old Unix standards are.
Niall
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