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JackSlateur on May 1, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Pure Sh Bible

You can xargs a bash function That function must be exported before, for instance:

my_function(){

...

}

export -f my_function

find | xargs my_function

arendtio on May 1, 2023 [–]

Yeah, I know, but 'export -f' is not POSIX compliant [1]. In addition, I have read, that this solution has quite a bad performance [2].

1: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V...

2: https://stackoverflow.com/a/67780632/1149404

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