Christian Weisgerber - Thu, 19 March 2020 at 22:38:30
> Make use of "find -exec {} +" (which is POSIX) and "find -delete"
> (which is not) throughout the ports Makefiles.
>
> Specifically:
>
> * Replace find|xargs with find -exec {} +
> find|xargs is an outdated construct. The -exec {} + invocation
> automatically avoids a number of corner cases (see xargs -0, -r).
i am late to this party too, but recently i did some research exactly
about the performance of xargs vs -exec vs -execdir and xargs is by far
the fatest on every platform except openbsd (i imagine becasue process
creation is heavier)
https://stackoverflow.com/a/60177893/4377759
(it was not testing -delete though)
> Also, since the exit status of the left-hand side of a pipe is
> ignored, find|xargs hides some problem.
it seems to me that `set -o pipefail` is becoming a thing in most shells
except openbsd's ksh... this is breaking the default command in fzf
(in another thread on this mailing list).
-f
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