Re: [dev] Why not use the -exec feature of find?

From: Cem Keylan <ml_AT_ckyln.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2021 19:54:15 +0300

"Greg Reagle" <list_AT_speedpost.net> writes:

> Why isn't that the common advice? Is the -exec feature of find fairly
> new, or fairly new to Posix?

Actually it's quite the opposite, "-exec" has been POSIX for a long
time, but neither "xargs -0" nor "-print0" are specified by POSIX.


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Cem Keylan
Received on Thu Jun 24 2021 - 18:54:15 CEST

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