Re: RE : OT: find command on rhel4 not working with mtime

On 7/12/06, Marius Raicu <mariu200_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I'm on RHEL3 and I use something like this, which works
>
> /usr/bin/find /u08/bla/bla/*.* -mtime +31 -print -exec /bin/rm {} \;
>
>

You know of course, that '-exec CMD {} \:' is evil.

For simple commands that accept a single argument, xargs is superior.

eg. /usr/bin/find /u08/bla/bla/*.* -mtime +31 -print | xargs rm

-exec forks and executes a shell for each file, xargs does not.

Try comparing the execution times of both methods.

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