find -print0 (was Re: svn commit: trunk/busybox )

[ldoolitt at recycle.lbl.gov]

Rich -

On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 06:39:33PM -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
> On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 05:58:34PM -0400, Paul Fox wrote:
> > [chop] have you never had to process a tree
> > full of filenames that were generated on a windows machine or a
> > mac?
> > 
> > i suppose there are alternate solutions, but find's -print0 and
> > xargs' -0 handle it trivially.  if you have another technique
> > that works well, i'd be interested in learning it.
> 
> I've never used xargs because find has a perfectly good -exec argument
> that does exactly the same thing...

"exactly" is not a good word to use there.  There are differences,
both in usage and performance.  -print0 | xargs -0 is better suited
to grep, for instance, that has a relatively heavy startup cost
per process.

    - Larry