Re: Please help

[Harlan Stenn]

Bob,

> Bob Proulx wrote:
> >   find . -type f -print0 | xargs -r0 touch --reference .
> >   make clean
> >   make
> 
> That was cut from an old saved message.  I will update it to the
> current find use avoiding the -print0 and say that I should have said
> this instead:
> 
>   find . -type f -exec touch --reference . {} +

I thought xargs was *significantly* faster than exec.

And I haven't looked to see if '-exec ... {}' is "safe" for filename
characters the same way -print0 ... is.

H