On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 8:13 PM, Kapil Hari Paranjape <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Sat, 07 Jun 2008, Masatran, R. Deepak wrote:
> > Eureka! I scanned the man page again and found a switch "-l" which forces
> > each input argument to be processed separately. Therefore, it is
> >
> > xargs -l foo
> >
> > that is equivalent to
> >
> > xargs -i foo {}
> >
> > Now onwards, I will always use "-l" with XArgs.
>
> Be careful. The man page also says:
>
> The -l option is deprecated since the POSIX standard
> specifies -L instead.
>
> So it may be better to use
>
> xargs -L 1 foo
>
> Kapil.
>
btw xargs is much more efficient than 'find -exec' - you can read the good
discussion here
http://www.sunmanagers.org/pipermail/summaries/2005-March/006255.html
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