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Re: your mail
Hi,
On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 03:34:55PM +0300, Kostadin Karaivanov wrote:
> :-)) When the culprit is known (my ignorance) to find the solution is easy.
> The find/xargs combination seems most robust to me, althou I beleave that
> find CHEPELARE / -name *.htm -exec ls {} \; (or cat {} \;) will work
> also......
Ewww. That will fork and exec a new copy of "ls" for every file it
finds. For a 30000-file directory, that will be *expensive*. xargs
is far more efficient.
Cheers,
Stephen
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