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Re:Marcel the Shell by js2 on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @01:51AM (#37995222)
Yes, I know that, but it's also exceedingly rare for a filename to contain a newline and using -exec is extremely inefficient. I also wrote that on my iPad. Typically I'd use a combination of -print0 and xargs -0 for anything more formal than a one-liner on the command line.

The larger bug in my example is that it fails if any of the directories in the path contain a "." in their name!

Re:Marcel the Shell by eviks on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @03:18AM (#37995724)
So then why are you using such buggy examples as counterarguments?
Re:Marcel the Shell by js2 on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @04:02AM (#37996021)
It's one example. I didn't realize the mistake when I wrote it. I wrote my comment in good faith. What's with the interrogation?
Re:Marcel the Shell by queuebert on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @09:29AM (#37998922)
xargs also is good to use on big argument lists because it can parallelize the processing of arguments with the '-n' and '-P' flags.