sh scripting question

[John Levine]

In article <20201018155812796938832 at bob.proulx.com> you write:
>> Sometimes that's better, sometimes not.  I have find scripts that delete
>> stale files, and it is a lot faster to use xargs to run "rm" once for
>> each thousand files than once per file.

>     -exec utility [argument ...] {} +
>             Same as -exec, except that “{}” is replaced with as many
>             pathnames as possible for each invocation of utility.

Oh, look at that.  Worth a try.

R's,
John
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