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

[Paul Fox]

 > > > 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.

exactly.  the performance hit of running a new process for every
filename rather than one per MAXARGS filenames is huge, in my
experience.

paul
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