--On February 15, 2011 12:57:12 PM +0300 Peter Andreev
<andreev.pe...@gmail.com> wrote:
Use of "xargs" on many files will be much faster than "find...exec"
construction
find / -type f -name copyright.htm | xargs sed -i .bak -e 's/2010/2011/g'
I believe you, but can you explain why this is true? What makes xargs
faster than exec?
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