[ILUG] ILUG] Disadvantages of find -exec?

[Brian Foster]

  | From: Keith Gaughan kmgaughan at eircom.net
  | Date: Wed Jan 14 00:19:06 GMT 2009
  |
  | Brian Foster wrote:
  | >  "-exec ... {} +" was added to POSIX in 2001  [ ... ]
  | >    http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/find.html
  | >  it apparently came from SVr4 (albeit I don't recall it).
  |
  | More precisely:
  |     http://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/various/find/#xargs

 interesting.  that page claims it was Dr Korn who added
 it to SVr4, but that it wasn't documented (at the time),
 which is very likely why I don't recall it — which is a
 bit ironic, since I was (at that time) a very big user
 of Korn's shell ('ksh').

cheers!
	-blf-
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