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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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