Debian bug report logs - #1411 perlconfig misses an opportunity to use xargs Package: perl ; Reported by: Ian Jackson ; 40 days old . ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message received at debian-bugs: From cus.cam.ac.uk!iwj10 Wed Sep 20 16:46:03 1995 Return-Path: Received: from pixar.com by mongo.pixar.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #15) id m0svYq3-000G6xA; Wed, 20 Sep 95 16:46 PDT Received: from bootes.cus.cam.ac.uk by pixar.com with SMTP id AA03211 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for debian-bugs-pipe@mongo.pixar.com); Wed, 20 Sep 1995 16:45:45 -0700 Received: by bootes.cus.cam.ac.uk (Smail-3.1.29.0 #36) id m0svYpj-000C0VA; Thu, 21 Sep 95 00:45 BST Received: by chiark id (Debian /\oo/\ Smail3.1.29.1 #29.33); Thu, 21 Sep 95 00:08 BST Message-Id: Date: Thu, 21 Sep 95 00:08 BST From: Ian Jackson To: Debian bugs submission address Subject: perlconfig misses an opportunity to use xargs Precedence: air-mail Package: perl Version: 5.001-3 find /usr/lib/perl5/i486-linux -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \; find /usr/lib/perl5/i486-linux -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \; This would be a lot faster as find /usr/lib/perl5/i486-linux -type f -print0 | xargs -r0 chmod 644 find /usr/lib/perl5/i486-linux -type d -print0 | xargs -r0 chmod 755 perlconfig is slow enough as it is. Also, shouldn't it be in /usr/sbin/perlconfig, rather than /usr/bin ? Ian. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Acknowledgement sent to Ian Jackson : New bug report received and forwarded. Full text available. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Report forwarded to debian-devel@pixar.com : Bug#1411 ; Package perl . Full text available. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ian Jackson / iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk , with the debian-bugs tracking mechanism This page last modified 07:43:01 GMT Wed 01 Nov