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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 AT byu DOT net
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