Re: find . -regex '.*js' -type f -exec md5sum '{}' \\; really slow!

[Spiro Trikaliotis <an-cygwin at spiro dot trikaliotis dot net>]

Hello Bartolomeo,

* On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 04:27:29PM +0100 Bartolomeo Nicolotti wrote:
 
> /usr/bin/find . -type f -exec md5sum '{}' \\;
[...]
> Could some one help me to speed-up things on windows+cygwin?

Just a guess:

/usr/bin/find . -type f|xargs md5sum

(Background: I expect the execution of md5sum to take much time. Thus,
with the xargs approach, I make sure the md5sum is called less times,
with more than one parameter each time - which will *hopefully* decrease
the time)

HTH,
Spiro.

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