On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 11:14:14AM -0700, Dave Margolis wrote:
>
> i agree, find is recursive by nature. no need to account for recursion
> with a script. question: how does piping ot xargs differ from using
> the -exec switch of find?
Say you had files "deleteme", "metoo" and "imouttahere"
find . -type f -exec rm {} \;
would cause this to happen:
rm deleteme
rm metoo
rm imouttahere
whereas the xargs method:
find . -type f | xargs rm
would cause this:
rm deleteme metoo imouttahere
A bit quicker; less process forking, yada-yada-yada.
Now, why do that instead of just typing that "rm" by hand (or using
wildcards)? Well, see the first post in this thread! :^)
(i.e., bash complaining about too many arguments)
Mike Simons taught me this one. But then again, he taught me about 50% of
what I know. ;)
-bill!
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