On Sun, Jan 10 2021, David Bremner wrote: > Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi> writes: > >> On Sun, Jan 03 2021, David Bremner wrote: >> >>> +find ${MAIL_DIR} -name .notmuch -prune -false -o -type f -exec gzip --recursive {} \; >> >> (some extra spaces above) >> >> The point of -false is that if there exists .notmuch which is file, then >> include it ? (w/o -false the -o part is not included as -prune is true). >> > I think the -false is just a mistake. For some reason I thought it was > needed to avoid descending into .notmuch > >> I'd suggest >> >> find ${MAIL_DIR} -name .notmuch -prune -false -o -type f -print0 | xargs -0 gzip -- >> > > what is the advantage of xargs here, less execs? less forks and execs -- pid's don't run to very large values so soon (it depends whether there are 3 or more files to be compressed, though :) > > d _______________________________________________ notmuch mailing list -- notmuch@notmuchmail.org To unsubscribe send an email to notmuch-leave@notmuchmail.org