The disadvantage is that you are going to spawn LOTS of rm -f
processes,  with the xargs approach you will spawn between 5% and 10%
as many.
<scw>
On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 06:26:26PM +0200, Roberto Polli wrote:
> Alle 18:21, mercoled? 28 giugno 2006, Stephen C Woods ha scritto:
> > your expire limit (please note that the command syntax of find is painful.)
> 
> > e.g.
> > cd /w/maildirs
> > /bin/find . -type f -ctime +180 -print | /bin/xargs /bin/rm -f
> less pain if you do
>  /bin/find . -type f -ctime +180 -exec rm -f {} \;
> 
> because you don't have to wait find to return before starting the removal of 
> mail ;)
> 
> Peace, R.
> 
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