On Mon, 13 Feb 2006, Matthias Kilian wrote: >(b) pipeing to xargs(1) may be faster.
Why so many people is using xargs ? I mean for instance why bother use xargs AND a pipe to do somthing like this : find ./ -type f -print | xargs -i rm -f Instead of rm -f $(find ./ -type f -print) ? Richard.