Hush script to recurse through file system?

[Harald Becker]

 Hi!

>>> find / -xdev -type f -print0 | xargs -0 readelf -d
>> FYI: This is more efficient than using a pipe:
>>
>> find / -xdev -type f -exec readelf -d '{}' 2>/dev/null \;
> In which way should this be more efficient?

Your question is the reason I kept the pipe version in my suggestion. As
far as I know does xarg execute the command only once with many
arguments on a single command line. This can be much faster than
invoking the same program many times with only one argument. So why
shall "-exec" be much more efficient (except removing the pipe)?

--
Harald