On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 05:31:13PM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Wednesday 23 January 2008, Steve Long wrote:
> > Or even: find blah -exec sed 'blah "blah"' +
>
> we specifically discourage `find -exec` in favor of `find -print0 | xargs -0`
> because it sucks.
In what way? I'm not aware of any problems with find -exec ... {} + that
are handled any better by find -print0 | xargs -0. It's too bad that you
can only add {} + at the very end of the command, but that's just as
much a problem with xargs -0.
Your reply didn't make it clear, but you're aware of the difference
between -exec {} ; and -exec {} +, right? The former executes a single
command for every file, while the latter builds one long argument list
when possible, the same way xargs does.
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