--- Doran Barton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> So what about 'find stuff -exec rm {} \;'?
xargs will, by default, build a command line with as many results
as it can fit. The result is that you create the minimum number
of rm processes.
find stuff -exec rm {} \; invokes rm for each result separately.
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