In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
James Mohr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>You need to tell -exec which file to process. This is done with curly braces:
>
>find /mnt/c/ -name *.snm -exec ls {} \;
>
>However, without the -exec, your command will simply list the files anyway. I
>am assuming that this is just an example, and you would want to do more than
>just list the file name. You could exand this concept and use the curly
Also, you should realize that for each file processed, there is the
overhead of fork()/exec() calls.
You would probably find something like:
find /mnt/c -name '*.snm' | xargs -r ls -l
to be significantly faster.
If you expect that there will be any spaces involved, consider using
-print0/-0 in addition:
find /mnt/c -name '*.snm' -print0 | xargs -0 -r ls -l
mrc
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