Re: cvs add `find ./`

[Gerhard Sittig]

On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 08:33 -0500, Richard J. Duncan wrote:
> 
> Then run,
> 
> find . -type f -exec foo.pl {} \;

An exec for every single item found is quite expensive (don't
know about today's timing, but I would estimate some 10 msec for
creating a new process -- the perl compiler run adds to this,
too).

Get yourself trained to use the xargs(1) command.  It will
balance between too many program invocations and too long command
lines ("foo.pl `find ...`" doesn't work for some 4K arguments on
the platforms I've seen.).

find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 foo.pl


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