On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 03:39:11PM -0400, Christopher Barry wrote: >> [ find ... -exec vs. find ... -print0|xargs -0 ] > > [...] I've mostly used -exec because I just thought it was better > in all cases - clearly it's not.
It is, if -exec + is used, but Busybox has not implemented it. Originally a System V feature, GNU and almost all other flavours have also implemented it meanwhile [1], and SUS aka POSIX favours it over -print0 [2]. Perhaps this feature is also appropriate for busybox? [1] http://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/various/find/#xargs [2] http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/find.html#tag_04_55_05 _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
