Re: listing symbolic links recursively, with dir listing

[Larry Jones]

Eric Siegerman writes:
> 
>       find . -type l -print | xargs ls -l
> might be faster, since it doesn't require a fork/exec for each
> symlink (to be honest, I don't actually know how "find -ls" is
> implemented; there may not be any improvement if, like xargs,
> it batches them up).

It's even better -- find just prints out an ls-like line itself without
forking or execing at all.

-Larry Jones

Fortunately, that was our plan from the start. -- Calvin