H₂0.py <okop...@gmail.com> writes:
> On Jan 18, 4:04 am, Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote:
>>
>> What's the advantage of 'find ... | xargs ...' over 'find ... -exec ...'?
>
> Portability. Running the '-exec' version will work fine in a directory
> with a relatively small number of files, but will fail on a large one.
How? -exec passes each file name to a separate invocation of the given
command - it doesn't build one large command line with multiple args.
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