SJS wrote:
> begin quoting David Brown as of Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 11:32:57AM -0700:
>> On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 11:31:10AM -0700, John Oliver wrote:
>>
>>> find /home/ftp -mtime +238 -name \*.mpg | xargs ls -lt
>> If you're using the GNU versions, it's easiest to just use null
>> termination.
>>
>> find /home/ftp -mtime +238 -name \*.mpg -print0 | xargs -0 ls -lt
>>
>
> The *easiest* way is to use -exec.
>
> Complaints about performance of -exec should be ignored, as in that
> case one should use + instead of \; to terminate the -exec option.
>
> Oh, wait, Linux isn't POSIX compliant with this.
Simple tests show the
-exec command {} +
syntax seems to work on my F7
find --version
GNU find version 4.2.29
Features enabled: D_TYPE O_NOFOLLOW(enabled) LEAF_OPTIMISATION SELINUX
Maybe it's (more) POSIIX-compliant now?
>
> For performance, resort to using a pipe and remembering to use nulls
> as separators.
>
Regards,
..jim
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