Bill Ricker <bill.n1...@gmail.com> writes:
> | xargs has advantages over -exec.
> + Can take multiple files per exec if supported, e.g. 'rm', massively
> reducing the exec() overhead.
> + can work with sources of filenames other than find
You misunderstand. You are thinking of "find -exec {} ;" which is
an exec per found object.
find $find_args -print0 | xargs -0 $command
is approximately
find $find_args -exec $command {} +
with some other small optimizations you can get by having this canonical
idiom open coded into find. It saves brain cells, it doesn't obsolete
xargs.
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