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Date:      Wed, 16 Feb 2011 14:38:01 +0300
From:      Peter Andreev <andreev.peter@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: script help
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2011/2/15 RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com>:
> On Tue, 15 Feb 2011 12:57:12 +0300
> Peter Andreev <andreev.peter@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Use of "xargs" on many files will be much faster than "find...exec"
>> construction
>
> This is a surprisingly common myth. exec can pass single or multiple
> arguments =A0according to whether you use ";" or "+"

You are right, use of "+" makes "-exec" much faster. Thank you, I
didn't know about this feature.
>>
>> find / -type f -name copyright.htm | xargs sed -i .bak -e
>> 's/2010/2011/g'
>
> This is much less safe on FreeBSD than it is with the GNU versions
> because print0 is required for paths with spaces.
>
> find =A0... -print0 | xargs -0 ...
>
>
>
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