X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4496BEB6.30904@byu.net> Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 09:11:50 -0600 From: Eric Blake User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (Windows/20060516) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Pb with bash script under cygwin References: <4934908.post@talk.nabble.com> <002901c69399$67131120$a501a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> <4935913.post@talk.nabble.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Igor Peshansky on 6/19/2006 8:50 AM: > > Another note I wanted to make is that '-exec' is evil, and you almost > never have a reason to use it for a final action of the find (pipe the > output to xargs instead -- "man xargs" for details). - -execdir is safer than -exec. And by using the + instead of ; operator to - -exec or -execdir, you can safely eliminate the xargs process: 'find - -execdir echo {} +' is more efficient than 'find -print | xargs echo'. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFElr6284KuGfSFAYARAiwCAKCswTcA1J5/1VgAaH6iDgfPTV8sIgCZAS1g fy/qwcJanFttxp+Y0sRu4A8= =b644 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/