find --man or find --?exec will document -exec command ... {} +
in the next release

On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 01:12:06 +0200 Sven Mascheck wrote:
> Glenn Fowler wrote:
> > [ ast beta 2010-08-11 source release has been posted ]

> Ha, I won't give up so easily: Please document
> the "-exec ... {} +"  functionality of find(1) :)

> ...or you might possibly consider it somehow inferior to, e.g.,
> tw(1) (likely) or "find -xargs ... {}" (I don't think so) ?

> Cheers, Sven

> On Sun, Apr 04, 2010 at 10:25:49PM +0200, Sven Mascheck wrote:
> > [...]
> > Oh, and I guess, find would be so glad if -exec + would be
> > documented, because David Korn himself gave birth to this
> > feature in SVR4 -- where it was not documented, either ;-)
> > My earlier hint to this list apparently got lost:
> > 
> > On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 09:42:07PM +0100, Sven Mascheck wrote:
> >>
> >> - find actually implements the SVR4/SUSv3 "-exec cmd {} +".
> >>
> >>   This is not documented (neither mentioned in the manual page,
> >>   nor in cmd/tw/RELEASE).
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