It's not even slower (and it's safe beyond the argv limit) if you use "+" instead of the semicolon. find -type f -exec sed -i s/foo/bar/ {} + This only invo

It's not even slower (and it's safe beyond the argv limit) if you use "+" instead of the semicolon. find -type f -exec sed -i s/foo/bar/ {} + This only invokes the command twice for 100k files (assuming we can pass in 64k arguments to sed)