Bob, > Bob Proulx wrote: > > find . -type f -print0 | xargs -r0 touch --reference . > > make clean > > make > > That was cut from an old saved message. I will update it to the > current find use avoiding the -print0 and say that I should have said > this instead: > > find . -type f -exec touch --reference . {} + I thought xargs was *significantly* faster than exec. And I haven't looked to see if '-exec ... {}' is "safe" for filename characters the same way -print0 ... is. H _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf