David Laight <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost> writes:
> On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 06:19:25PM +0000, David Holland wrote:
>> On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 01:34:02PM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
>> > >Christos seems to have made the same mistake as you, confusing "-exec
>> > >... \;" (which runs a separate child program for each file name) with
>> > >"-exec ... +" (which passes many file names to each invocation of the
>> > >child program).
>> >
>> > Yes, I did not know about exec {} +
>>
>> Neither did I; when was it invented? Did the POSIX folks come up with
>> something good for a change?
>
> Ditto - which probably means it is less portable that -print0 :-)
New to me too, but it appears to work fine on Solaris 10, GNU findutils (thus
Linux), and NetBSD.
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Jim Wise
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