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> find on CentOS 5.4 supports
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> find <path> -exec {} +;
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> which avoids the negative effect of spawning new subprocesses when using
> "-exec {} \;"
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> find on CentOS 4.8 does not support that.
I'll have to give that a try sometime. A person gets used to a subset of a command, and doesn't necessarily look for new options being added.