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From: Mikhail Teterin <mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com>
Organization: Virtual Estates, Inc.
To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
Subject: Re: feature request for xargs
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 11:10:45 -0400
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On Friday 21 June 2002 11:09 am, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
= Mikhail Teterin <mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com> writes:
= > All operations, involving many light tasks can benefit, i.e.
= >
= > 	find /some/dir \! -type d -print0 | xargs -0 -j0 rm -f
=
= find /some/dir \! -type d -delete

Wouldn't this be slower, since find will be waiting for the delete
to complete (yes, I know about the racing)?

	-mi


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