On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 17:27, Rowling, Jill wrote: > The sequence find ..... -exec seems safe enough though. > I suspect it just uses the inode numbers rather than the file name or > something (but beware this is on Solaris ;)
Very true if you're not working with a large list. Doing it this way, you'll have a command spawned for each file find finds, where as xargs will fit as many files into one command as possible. You won't notice a difference on a small list, but on a big one it takes much more time/resources to use the -exec option -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
