Your suggestions (@you > 1) make sense, and I use xargs a lot on local machines; no reason to avoid it on remote ones.

In regard your comment about xargs bunching up args and thus forking off less: sure, but sometimes that's not what you want (some commands really do need to run one file at a time). So just for the sake of completeness (I know you may already know this): the -n switch to xargs accepts a number of arguments to bunch up to every forked command. The two following lines are roughtly equivalent: 

find . -exec somecmd \{} \;
find . -print0 | xargs -0 -n 1 somecmd

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BTW, some versions of xargs have a nifty concurrency switch, -P on the GNU variant. This too is sometimes very much not what you want, though :)

In reply to Re^3: Run system find -exec on remote machine by gaal
in thread Run system find -exec on remote machine by gaal

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