Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 14:53:26 -0700 From: Bill Campbell <freebsd@celestial.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: first of misc questions.... Message-ID: <20070425215326.GA25614@ayn.mi.celestial.com> In-Reply-To: <20070425212318.GA5247@saltmine.radix.net> References: <20070425072914.GA65634@thought.org> <462F0824.5000107@infracaninophile.co.uk> <ed5f4bce0704251331v735ccedet947318e8d2a6fbe1@mail.gmail.com> <20070425212318.GA5247@saltmine.radix.net>
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On Wed, Apr 25, 2007, Thomas Dickey wrote: >On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 10:31:45PM +0200, Irsla wrote: >> On 4/25/07, Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote: >> > >> > find . -type f \( -mtime 6 -o -mtime 29 \) -print0 | xargs -0 vi >> > >> >> what about the -exec option of find ? I always wonder why people don't use >> it. > >it's simpler but not necessarily as efficient. How could it be as efficient as it executes the -exec for every thing that find finds? Xargs groups the output (except under rare circumstances where one might specify that it run the command for each argument). Bill -- INTERNET: bill@Celestial.COM Bill Campbell; Celestial Software, LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. -- Mark Twain
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