Le lundi 15 octobre 2007 à 23:43 +0100, Steve Long a écrit : 
> Roy Marples wrote:
> The unintended globbing is indeed unsafe, in the general case. I'd do this: 
> 
> find "$D" -type f -name '*'"$v"'.*pm' -exec rm {} +
> 
> The shell will still treat that all as one argument (this method is
> typically used to insert variables into awk commands, or sed ones which
> use ".) The + will make the command execution more efficient for commands
> that take multiple filenames. The one caveat with + is that the {} must
> appear at the end of the command.[3]

I haven't reread the fine mans for a while but iirc, + could lead you to
hit the argument buffer limit of your shell. xargs has --max-args to get
around that and is also way faster than any -exec variant (at least
that's what the bench I did on a PIV2.6Ghz showed me about 4 months ago)

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