On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 10:37 +0200, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > Andrew Kelly schrieb: > > On Tue, 2007-07-10 at 19:46 -0500, John Pierce wrote: > >> Thanks, for all of the suggestions. I have been reading man find and xargs. > > > > I'm curious, why pipe to xargs when find can handle things itself? > > $ find /path -type f -exec chmod ugo-x {} \; > > > > Andy > > Because that opens a subshell for each of the findings. So depending on > what you want to execute it "-exec" may have a bigger impact on your > system's performance. At least it takes much longer to proceed. Ah, yes, excellent point. Thanks. Andy -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list