[Gllug] OT: Tomcat & Apache mapping problem

[Rich Walker]

Bruce Richardson <itsbruce at uklinux.net> writes:

> On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 05:17:44PM +0000, Mike wrote:
>> 
>> Ah, but I like cats :-). Actually, there are lots of things I learnt how
>> to do one way, and then subsequently found a "more efficient" way of
>> doing same later.
>
> When it comes to the avoidance of cat, those ironic quotes are not
> merited.  Cutting out needless use of cat will make a big difference to
> the load that your shell scripts will impose on a system.  Stylistic
> conventions are one thing but when your habits enshrine bad practice and
> you know it, it really is time to learn better habits.

I believe this should be followed with:

The -exec option to find is for use in emergencies only. Normally, you
want find ... | xargs ... : which will only start 3 processes, rather
than 1 per file...

(yes, I have brought my machine to a grinding halt with the use of
find...)

cheers, Rich.

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