Re: [PLUG] add symlink to directory with find -name -exec {} \;

[Michael Bevilacqua <michael@bevilacqua.us>]

On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 3:39 PM, JP Vossen <jp@jpsdomain.org> wrote:

In general you want to avoid using '-exec {} \;' because it's terribly
inefficient since it guarantees that you spawn a sub-shell for every
single file you find.  *Often* a better way is this (assume GNU tools):
       find -name script_name -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 200

Note, there is a way to perform this in find(1) without piping to xargs(1):


find . -name script_name -exec chmod 200 {} + ;/


Man page for more details.

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Michael D. Bevilacqua
michael@bevilacqua.us
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