On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 8:27 AM, Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote: > Stefan Behnel wrote: > >> Peter Otten, 18.01.2011 10:04: >>> What's the advantage of 'find ... | xargs ...' over 'find ... -exec ...'? >> >> The former runs in parallel, the latter runs sequentially. > > This may sometimes be relevant, but I doubt that it matters in this > particular case.
I don't think xargs is ever parallel, but GNU parallel is supposed to be a parallel tool with options and usage similar to those/that of xargs: http://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/ xargs' main advantages are: 1) Simpler quoting (correctness), especially if you use (GNU) "find -print0" with "xargs -0" 2) Far fewer exec's, which usually means much better performance -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
