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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Need help improving my script. Post 302970884 by bakunin on Wednesday 13th of April 2016 05:29:43 AM
Old 04-13-2016
Quote:
Originally Posted by garlandxj11
What is the difference in "+" instead of "\;" ? What about that would help with the speed? Sorry for my ignorance. I really am trying to learn as I go on this. Smilie
First off: no problem! There no dumb questions, just dumb answers, so don't be shy.

The difference is that "\;" will call the command named in "-exec" each time a file is found. For instance, let us suppose in the curent directory are 5 files, "a", "b", "c", "d" and "e" (and nothing else):

Code:
find . -type f -exec rm {} \;

This wil delete all the files, but it will delete every file individually. In fact this will be executed:

Code:
rm a
rm b
rm c
rm d
rm e

But "rm" can take a list of files as well and this:

Code:
find . -type f -exec rm {} +

would be the same as

Code:
rm a b c d e

The difference seems to be small, but the most time, when calling a command like "rm", is the loading and starting of the program, not its execution. Therefore, if the command is executed only every fifth time the speed gain will be quite noticeably.

I hope this helps.

bakunin
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NPM-RUN-SCRIPT(1)														 NPM-RUN-SCRIPT(1)

NAME
npm-run-script - Run arbitrary package scripts SYNOPSIS
npm run-script <command> [--silent] [-- <args>...] alias: npm run DESCRIPTION
This runs an arbitrary command from a package's "scripts" object. If no "command" is provided, it will list the available scripts. run[-script] is used by the test, start, restart, and stop commands, but can be called directly, as well. When the scripts in the package are printed out, they're separated into lifecycle (test, start, restart) and directly-run scripts. As of ` https://blog.npmjs.org/post/98131109725/npm-2-0-0, you can use custom arguments when executing scripts. The special option -- is used by getopt https://goo.gl/KxMmtG to delimit the end of the options. npm will pass all the arguments after the -- directly to your script: npm run test -- --grep="pattern" The arguments will only be passed to the script specified after npm run and not to any pre or post script. The env script is a special built-in command that can be used to list environment variables that will be available to the script at run- time. If an "env" command is defined in your package, it will take precedence over the built-in. In addition to the shell's pre-existing PATH, npm run adds node_modules/.bin to the PATH provided to scripts. Any binaries provided by locally-installed dependencies can be used without the node_modules/.bin prefix. For example, if there is a devDependency on tap in your package, you should write: "scripts": {"test": "tap test/*.js"} instead of "scripts": {"test": "node_modules/.bin/tap test/*.js"} to run your tests. The actual shell your script is run within is platform dependent. By default, on Unix-like systems it is the /bin/sh command, on Windows it is the cmd.exe. The actual shell referred to by /bin/sh also depends on the system. As of ` https://github.com/npm/npm/releases/tag/v5.1.0 you can customize the shell with the script-shell configuration. Scripts are run from the root of the module, regardless of what your current working directory is when you call npm run. If you want your script to use different behavior based on what subdirectory you're in, you can use the INIT_CWD environment variable, which holds the full path you were in when you ran npm run. npm run sets the NODE environment variable to the node executable with which npm is executed. Also, if the --scripts-prepend-node-path is passed, the directory within which node resides is added to the PATH. If --scripts-prepend-node-path=auto is passed (which has been the default in npm v3), this is only performed when that node executable is not found in the PATH. If you try to run a script without having a node_modules directory and it fails, you will be given a warning to run npm install, just in case you've forgotten. You can use the --silent flag to prevent showing npm ERR! output on error. You can use the --if-present flag to avoid exiting with a non-zero exit code when the script is undefined. This lets you run potentially undefined scripts without breaking the execution chain. SEE ALSO
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