On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 9:36 PM, Yuri K. Shatroff <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 13.09.2013 10:24, Jean-Christophe Bach wrote:
> [ ... ]
>
>>
>> This one should work:
>>
>> find /home/joseph/ -iname "*.pdf" -exec ls -l --sort=time {} +
>
>
> -exec is not suitable here because it spawns a `ls` process per each found
> entry; aside from being slow, this disallows sorting at all.
This is incorrect. If you terminate exec with '+' instead of '\;', only a single
instance of the command is run - the command line is built by appending
each found file to the end of the {} placeholder.
The only reason I see for it to fail is if you have so many files that
it can't be
passed to the argv of the receiving command.
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