Date: 18 Oct 2020 20:34:38 -0400 From: "John Levine" <johnl@iecc.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: bob@proulx.com Subject: Re: sh scripting question Message-ID: <20201019003438.DEE4923A1E5D@ary.qy> In-Reply-To: <20201018155812796938832@bob.proulx.com>
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In article <20201018155812796938832@bob.proulx.com> you write:
>> Sometimes that's better, sometimes not. I have find scripts that delete
>> stale files, and it is a lot faster to use xargs to run "rm" once for
>> each thousand files than once per file.
> -exec utility [argument ...] {} +
> Same as -exec, except that “{}” is replaced with as many
> pathnames as possible for each invocation of utility.
Oh, look at that. Worth a try.
R's,
John
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