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Forum: Shell Programming and Scripting 06-18-2008

why we use xargs..

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Rather than using say a "-exec" switch with find,...

Rather than using say a "-exec" switch with find, lets say you did a "-exec rm {} \;" for example... and your find comes up with 10,000 files. It means you've executed rm 10,000 times. xargs will...

Forum: UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers 12-10-2006

Problem with files returned using Find command

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try this..

-exec is pretty inefficient.. use xargs. Try something like:

find . -type f | xargs grep "string"

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