Re: find + xargs

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>From: Paul Eggert <yyyyyy@xxxxxxxxxxx>

>> From: yyy@xxxxxxxxxxx (Geoff Clare)
>> Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 17:20:26 +0000
>> 
>> The other existing solution is an extension to "find" to make it do
>> the argument aggregation internally, so xargs is not needed:
>> 
>>     find . -type f -exec some_command {} +
>> 
>> Here the use of "+" instead of ";" as the command terminator causes
>> find to substitute sets of pathnames for "{}" instead of single
>> pathnames.  I believe this works on all SVR4-derived systems.

>It doesn't work on Solaris 8, at least not for me.  Also, it is not a
>pure extension, since it invalidates conforming commands like this:

It is not in the man page but it works just fine on Solaris 8
Maybe you have problems with your shell?

burner jes > find . -exec echo 'HERE IS ECHO' {} +

prints e.g.:

HERE IS ECHO . ./s.Makefile ./s.calltree.c ./s.clex.c ./s.clex.h ./s.keyw.c 
./s.stream.c ./s.stream.h ./s.string.c ./s.sym.c ./s.sym.h ./s.defs.h 
./s.strsubs.h ./s.calltree.1


>find . -type f -exec echo + {} ';'

This looks strange..

Jörg

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