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From: Mark David Dumlao <madumlao@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] look for a file type + sort
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 21:43:31 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAG2nJkNTTXwEGMrrFepFtf4y-Xm0SE_o0PumrxoK=8_d4rEEsg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <523314C2.3040308@yandex.ru>

On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 9:36 PM, Yuri K. Shatroff <yks-uno@yandex.ru> wrote:
> On 13.09.2013 10:24, Jean-Christophe Bach wrote:
> [ ... ]
>
>>
>> This one should work:
>>
>> find /home/joseph/ -iname "*.pdf" -exec ls -l --sort=time {} +
>
>
> -exec is not suitable here because it spawns a `ls` process per each found
> entry; aside from being slow, this disallows sorting at all.

This is incorrect. If you terminate exec with '+' instead of '\;', only a single
instance of the command is run - the command line is built by appending
each found file to the end of the {} placeholder.

The only reason I see for it to fail is if you have so many files that
it can't be
passed to the argv of the receiving command.
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  reply	other threads:[~2013-09-13 13:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-13  4:48 [gentoo-user] look for a file type + sort Joseph
2013-09-13  4:58 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2013-09-13  5:04   ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2013-09-13  5:11     ` Joseph
2013-09-13  5:16       ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2013-09-13  6:24         ` Jean-Christophe Bach
2013-09-13  6:50           ` Florian Philipp
2013-09-13 12:45             ` Joseph
2013-09-13 13:36           ` Yuri K. Shatroff
2013-09-13 13:43             ` Mark David Dumlao [this message]
2013-09-13 13:51               ` Yuri K. Shatroff
2013-09-14  4:04                 ` Mark David Dumlao
2013-09-14 19:16                   ` Florian Philipp
2013-09-13 20:52 ` Alexander Kapshuk

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