On Monday 21 Sep 2009, balachandar muruganantham wrote:

>
> for find, which has a exec by default. not need to use xargs
>
> You can also remove all .svn files like this.
> find . -type d -name .svn -exec rm -rf {} \;
>

True, but each 'exec' forks a sub shell to execute the command passed to 
it, whereas with xargs it is only one sub shell i.e. the command and 
the target which comes from the find command.

-- 
Arun Khan

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