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Ignatios Souvatzis <is@netbsd.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 10:38:00AM -0400, Jan Schaumann wrote:
> > Hubert Feyrer <hubert@feyrer.de> wrote:
>=20
> > > But can you use xargs(1) to speed things up a bit?
> > >=20
> > > find ${BULKFILESDIR} \( -name $BROKENF -o -name $BRKWRKLOG \
> > > 	-o -name $BLDLOG \) print \
> > > | xargs rm -f
> >=20
> > If that's actually faster, then yeah, sure.
>=20
> Shouldn't we add -n 32 or something like that to xargs?

I'd expect the xargs for each OS to DTRT by default.  Are there OSs that
come with an xargs that passes more than the max possible number to the
other tools?  If not, then I think passing "-n 32" would be
unneccessary.

-Jan

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