Re: Need to change, oh, every file at once?

This way of using `find' is inefficient: it spawns a new Perl process for every file processed. Why not use xargs? (Also, ``-name "*"'' does nothing, so you could just lose it)

find ./ -type f | xargs ./somescript.pl

starts the least number of processes. More than one process may be started if the length of the command line grows beyond what's permitted.

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Re: Re: Need to change, oh, every file at once? by belg4mit (Prior) on Jan 22, 2002 at 12:55 UTC
`-name ` is redundant with GNU `find`, other `find`s such as Solaris require this. UPDATE*: Sorry, Sun requires a PATH which is optional for GNU. `-- perl -pe "s/\b;([st])/'\1/mg"`	[reply]