Re: command to list all the files and with the path also

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Scott R. Godin wrote:
>> Also, if you're going to do a recursive list using "find", "xargs",
>> and "ls" you're much better off using
>>    find | xargs ls -ld
> 
> perhaps better would be 
>     find -exec ls -ld {} \;

Define better.  :)

Here's the time to run both commands on a new users home directory on
my system (Core Duo T2300, 1GB RAM).

find ~ | xargs ls -ld:

    real    0m0.019s
    user    0m0.008s
    sys     0m0.008s

find ~ -exec ls -ld {}:

    real    0m1.007s
    user    0m0.072s
    sys     0m0.212s

That's on a directory with only 121 entries found by find.  Ouch.

And, the find -exec command's output wasn't aligned consistently like
it is when run from xargs (since with -exec you're executing an ls for
each file or dir, AFAIK).

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