Hush script to recurse through file system?

Sven Mascheck mascheck at in-ulm.de
Sun Jun 19 21:45:03 UTC 2011


On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 10:34:56PM +0200, Harald Becker wrote:

> Reducing the number of program invocations may speed up the hole
> process if that system overhead is high or the program gets called
> very often. On the other hand is the possibility of the pipe
> solution for a bigger memory usage peak relatively high.

Interesting point. Is this an issue for which ARG_MAX could
take account for or do you consider this a situative issue?
xargs -n might be a way to work around such a problem, while
find -exec + doesn't provide such.


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