On Tue, 14 Feb 2006, noob lenoobie wrote:

> On Mon, 13 Feb 2006, Matthias Kilian wrote:
> >(b) pipeing to xargs(1) may be faster.
> 
> Why so many people is using xargs ?
> 
> I mean for instance why bother use xargs AND a pipe to do somthing like this
> :
> 
> find ./ -type f -print | xargs -i rm -f
> Instead of
> rm -f $(find ./ -type f -print)

Because that will fail when there are too many arguments, and will 
probably break on filenames with spaces (use xargs -0 for these).

-d

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