On Tue, 31 May 2022 20:44:49 -0500, Kirk Wolf wrote: >find -exec is a generally poor choice for doing something efficiently, >especially on z/OS. > find ... | xargs -0 ... would be more efficient, but z/OS doesn't support xargs -0. Does Rocket's findutils do better?
>find -exec is an extremely popular way to demonstrate a heaping dose of >impenetrable syntax > Is it any less penetrable than the shell syntax itself? I looked at Single UNIX xargs: <https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/xargs.html#tag_20_158_03> describes an impenetrable syntax for escaping non-portable pathname characters. It mentions no application that generates a file with such syntax. How did that come to be part of a standard? I suspect it's a spiteful reaction to Linux. z/OS Command Ref mentions no such escaping convention. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
