On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 03:48:27PM -0900, Ken Irving wrote: > I find find very useful, and find's -exec command as well, but someone > always chimes in with how it's "wrong" to use it since it causes find to > create umpteen shell processes, one for each hit, and you really should be > piping find into xargs.
My favorite way is to use find's -printf directive to construct the complete commands and pipe the result to a shell. Has the advantage that you first hack away at your complete find commend and give it a dry run, and if you're happy with what it spits out you just tack the "| sh" bit to the end. --D.
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