URL: <http://savannah.gnu.org/support/?105704>
Summary: -exec cmd add cmd aggregation (+) Project: findutils Submitted by: None Submitted on: Monday 12/18/2006 at 14:55 UTC Category: None Priority: 5 - Normal Severity: 1 - Wish Status: None Privacy: Public Assigned to: None Originator Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open/Closed: Open Discussion Lock: Any Operating System: GNU/Linux _______________________________________________________ Details: Could youplease add following functionality to GNU find as it works on HP-UX 11.x: -exec cmd True if the executed cmd returns a zero value as exit status. The end of cmd must be punctuated by a semicolon (;) or a plus sign (+) (semicolon and plus are special to the shell and must be escaped). When + is used, cmd aggregates a set of path names and executes on the set. Any command arguments between the first occurrence of {} and + are ignored. The reason for preferring + to a ; is vastly improved performance. Any command argument {} is replaced by the current path name. cmd may contain supplementary code set characters. This greatly improves -exec performance and makes find | xargs useless. It also removes all problems comes with pipeing to xargs. (filenames with spaces, unexpected end of file etc...) Thanks very much. Norbert Nemeth _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <http://savannah.gnu.org/support/?105704> _______________________________________________ Message sent via/by Savannah http://savannah.gnu.org/ _______________________________________________ Bug-findutils mailing list Bug-findutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-findutils