On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 09:05:54AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > I don't use -exec on find any more because it's slow. When you pipe the > names into xargs as I do, then spaces cause the problem I described.
Well, until now I didnt even know about xargs' purpose, thanks for the pointer. > For slowness, consider this: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ find ~ -type f | wc -l > 886076 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ find ~ -type f -print0 | xargs -0 | wc -l > 3990 You're right, xargs is faster (60 times in the case of ls), but only if the actual command isn't doing very much. For md5sum there is practically no difference in speed (have just done some measurements). BTW, what are all those files in your home directory? I have only about 14000 and thought that this is the biggest mess ever ;) Regards Matthias -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
