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

[Matthew Woehlke]

Bartolomeo Nicolotti wrote:
> but the command
> 
> find . -type f  | xargs md5sum
> 
> has problems with blanks in the name of the files:
> [snip examples]

find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 md5sum

...tells find to output \0-separated lines instead of \n-separated 
lines, and tells xargs to expect \0-separated args instead of 
whitespace-seoarated args.

(That said, I've always rather wondered why xargs doesn't have a mode to 
expect \n-separated args. There is of course the problem that file names 
might also contain \n (maybe not on 'doze, but on POSIX filesystems they 
can), though for less typing it seems most xargs input tends to be 
line-delineated anyway.

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