On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 06:46:31PM +0530, Shridhar Daithankar<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> No. xargs will construct a command using a line in input and pattern. So it
> will call rm 19201 times with one file at a time. Slow but better than not
> working..
The number of lines from input to use in the command line to execute is configurable
in xargs.
> It is in essense, for i in `ls *` ; do rm -f "$i"; done. But I don't know if
> bash/sh/ksh will choke om having so many items in the item list.
Well, if rm -f * choked, so will ls *.
> But you got the idea right?
The idea is that xargs is somewhere between find . -type f -exec rm -f {} \; and
rm -f *, in terms of number of processes spawned.
Binand
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