On Sat, 23 Jan 2010, Marcelo M. Garcia wrote:
Robert Heller wrote:
-bash: /usr/bin/find: Argument list too long
'man xargs'
find <mumble> -print | xargs rm
Hi
Just curious. What is the difference between the command above and "find <numble> -exec rm -f {} ;" ?
the find ... -exec variation will invoke a new "rm" command for every single file it finds, which will simply take more time to run. beyond that, the effect should be the same.
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