On Tue, 2002-08-13 at 13:32, Visser, Martin (Sydney) wrote:
> find has the built in ability to execute commands on each found file, avoiding any
>shell globbing or scaling issue.
>
> find ./ -type -maxdepth 1 -exec convertfile {} \;
>
> The {} matches the file name, and \; delineates the command to be executed
> Very neat but VERY slow. You spawn a new process per file you want to do - useful in some circumstances but not so in things like deletes etc. A for loop with xargs(1) will ease your pain in those circumstances. Greeno -- Tony Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tel : +61-(0)2-9500-9996
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