Date: 18 Oct 2020 17:54:20 -0400 From: "John Levine" <johnl@iecc.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: bob@proulx.com Subject: Re: sh scripting question Message-ID: <20201018215421.6BA9B23A1462@ary.qy> In-Reply-To: <20201018144327254822114@bob.proulx.com>
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In article <20201018144327254822114@bob.proulx.com> you write:
>> Since find is in use, I think the canonical solution is
>> to use "find -print0"..."xargs -0"
>Here is an example, I will use a "ls -ld" command just to make it a
>real concrete example and perhaps easier to read that way.
>
> find . -exec ls -ld {} +
Sometimes that's better, sometimes not. I have find scripts that delete
stale files, and it is a lot faster to use xargs to run "rm" once for
each thousand files than once per file.
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