Re: faster version of find (for -exec)?

[Bernhard Voelker]

On 07/19/2014 05:20 AM, Peng Yu wrote:
> I'm wondering if there is a faster version of `find` (may be in other
> languages, such as python or perl).
> 
> `-exec` of `find` calls for an external command, which is slow.

What exactly is slow with -exec? Please post examples.
It's very likely that it's a confusion on your side how find(1)
works with -exec.

Especially note that an invocation like

  find some/where -exec some/prog '{}' \;

will execute 1 "some/prog" process per file found, while

  find some/where -exec some/prog '{}' +

will execute "some/prog" processes with as much files as parameters
as possible by the current environment, thus dramatically reducing
the need to spawn new processes.
E.g.

  $ find . -exec echo process '{}' \;
  process .
  process ./c
  process ./b
  process ./a

versus
  $ find . -exec echo process '{}' +
  process . ./c ./b ./a


Did you hit this one?

Have a nice day,
Berny