What's wrong with this command?

[Bill Warner]

I have just had better luck getting things to do what i want useing
xargs.  I have used both in the past but have found that the xargs way
seems to be the way that outputs what I expect it to do, while sometimes
the -exec will not.  

I am not sure why.

Bill Warner

On 26 Jun 2001 14:45:09 -0700, Steven M. Klass wrote:
> On Tuesday 26 June 2001 12:38, the famous Bill Warner wrote:
> 
> Terrific!!!  But I have some questions-> GO FIGURE! :)
> 
> > I was doing something almost exaclty the same as this.
> >
> > I was duplicating directory structures and hardlinking files for use
> > with nfs root filesystems.
> >
> > these were the commands I came up with:
> >     cd /$backupdir
> >     find ../$sourcedir -type d | cut -c 13-256 |xargs mkdir
> 
> why did you not go directly to the -exec mkdir -> even with the cut 
> operation.  I guess I'm curious why people say I should be doing it the xargs 
> way?
> 
> >       cd /$sourcedir
> >     find . -type f -exec ln {} /$root/$destination/{} \;
> 
> But again I would think that I could substitute my -exec and it would work
> 
> It doesn't and I can't figure out why..  Hmm.
> 
> 
> >
> > the cut used in the first one was to cut off the base direcitory because
> > find was returning more than what i wanted.  you may need to adjust the
> > size of the cut to fit your situations. I am only now starting to
> > revisit this script for use again so YMMV.
> >
> > 
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