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Date:      Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:49:44 +0530
From:      Joseph Koshy <joseph.koshy@gmail.com>
To:        Martin Rakhmanov <rakhmanov.martin@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-doc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: xargs vs -exec
Message-ID:  <84dead720902190319s5e8b0b10rb2438a62f1587785@mail.gmail.com>
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> Is there any reason to use xargs instead of find's -exec option?

There would be fewer new processes created with xargs(1), compared to
using find -exec.

Koshy



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