We all use find to locate stuff on the command line. The -exec option allows us to execute a command on the located objects without having to pipe the output anywhere. This is convenient but slow. Find executes the command for every matched file. For example, the following command runs ls -la individually for every file in the /home/user/Documents/ directory: find /home/user/Documents/ -type f -exec ls -ls {} \; This command takes 9.5s on the my Documents directory. That’s pretty slow for t...
