On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 08:26:21PM +0100, Frank Gevaerts wrote: > > find . -name '*.jpg' -print0 | xargs -r0 mpg123 > > Any special reason not to use -exec (except of course that xargs works > with any input, while -exec only with find (obviously))
I always use xargs instead of find -exec because it just comes more naturally to me. There are some technical reasons for it, though. GNU xargs is considerably more versatile than -exec. On some platforms (not sure about GNU find/xargs) find also spawns a subshell for every file with -exec, which makes xargs considerably more efficient. Not much difference for a dozen files, but if you have a few thousand results you're saving the time of starting a few thousand shells that do nothing but run a single command and exit. -- Michael Heironimus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
