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bash Cookbook

by Carl Albing, JP Vossen, Cameron Newham
May 2007
Beginner
628 pages
15h 46m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Speeding Up Operations on Found Files

Problem

You used a find command like the one in Finding All Your MP3 Files and the resulting operations take a long time because you found a lot of files, so you want to speed it up.

Solution

See the discussion on xargs Handling Filenames Containing Odd Characters.

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