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Date:      Tue, 15 Feb 2011 09:37:49 -0600
From:      Paul Schmehl <pschmehl_lists@tx.rr.com>
To:        Peter Andreev <andreev.peter@gmail.com>, freebsd <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: script help
Message-ID:  <7CD0B68CDB1B3698E9ABE60D@utd71538.local>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=3ngyVR38-tCjcMKxOpNNSN6Qo2uiJE7y4qpDD@mail.gmail.com>
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--On February 15, 2011 12:57:12 PM +0300 Peter Andreev 
<andreev.peter@gmail.com> wrote:

> Use of "xargs" on many files will be much faster than "find...exec"
> construction
>
> find / -type f -name copyright.htm | xargs sed -i .bak -e 's/2010/2011/g'
>

I believe you, but can you explain why this is true?  What makes xargs 
faster than exec?

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