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| author |   otto <otto@openbsd.org> | 2006-10-11 12:26:00 +0000 |
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| committer | otto <otto@openbsd.org> | 2006-10-11 12:26:00 +0000 |
| commit | 83a09b7111576f563495476a23f50cbf8c0e0f6d (patch) | |
| tree | 29958568e0864a1260cd3c9ea3f3d7c955edd68e | |
| parent | Use __packed instead of __attribute__((packed)). OK mglocker@ (diff) | |
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Suggest to use xargs(1) and give an example; started by jmc, ok jmc@
| -rw-r--r-- | usr.bin/find/find.1 | 12 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/find/find.1 b/usr.bin/find/find.1 index 2bf62dfb081..0842647ddaf 100644 --- a/usr.bin/find/find.1 +++ b/usr.bin/find/find.1 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: find.1,v 1.62 2006/10/11 11:46:04 jmc Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: find.1,v 1.63 2006/10/11 12:26:00 otto Exp $ .\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1993 .\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. .\" @@ -188,6 +188,14 @@ arguments it is replaced by the pathname of the current file. will be executed from the directory from which .Nm was executed. +.Pp +Since +.Ar utility +is executed every time a match is made, +it is often more efficient to pipe the output of +.Nm +to +.Xr xargs 1 . .It Xo .Ic -execdir Ar utility .Op argument ... @@ -534,6 +542,8 @@ ending in a dot and single digit, but skip directory Find and remove all *.jpg files in the current working directory: .Pp .Dl "$ find . -name \e*.jpg -exec rm {} \e;" +or +.Dl "$ find . -name \e*.jpg | xargs rm" .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr chflags 1 , .Xr chmod 1 , |