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From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: Can U pipe filenames to rm???
Message-ID: <1990Oct05.183459.27685@virtech.uucp>
Date: 5 Oct 90 18:34:59 GMT
References: <28790001@col.hp.com> <1977@sixhub.UUCP> <1990Sep30.182331.14363@iconsys.uucp> <941@hls0.hls.oz>
Reply-To: cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill)
Organization: Virtual Technologies Inc., Sterling VA
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In article <941@hls0.hls.oz> george@hls0.hls.oz (George Turczynski) writes:
>	find {{stuff here}} -exec rm -f {} \;
>
>Why use `xargs' when you don't need to ?

Because it is *******MUCH******* faster (assuming you are going to exec the
command more than once or twice).

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