From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] xargs and rm funkiness
Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 08:46:21 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100522084621.27a5ad56@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201005212149.49715.ddjones@riddlemaster.org>
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On Fri, 21 May 2010 21:49:49 -0400, Daniel D Jones wrote:
> find -name *.ext | xargs -0 rm
>
> I get the result:
>
> rm: cannot remove `Long File Name One.ext\nLong File Name Two.ext\nLong
> File Name Three.ext\n': File name too long.
xargs can suck with anything but plain ASCII-without-spaces filenames.,
and it quite unnecessary here.
find -name *.ext -exe rm "{}" \;
or maybe even
find -name *.ext -exe rm "{}" +
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Neil Bothwick
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-22 7:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-22 1:49 [gentoo-user] xargs and rm funkiness Daniel D Jones
2010-05-22 2:11 ` covici
2010-05-22 16:04 ` Daniel D Jones
2010-05-22 7:46 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2010-05-22 18:38 ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-05-22 22:02 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-05-26 10:41 ` Joerg Schilling
2010-05-22 7:49 ` Patrick Holthaus
2010-05-26 10:42 ` Joerg Schilling
2010-05-29 15:05 ` Daniel D Jones
2010-05-29 18:04 ` Etaoin Shrdlu
2010-05-29 18:43 ` Joerg Schilling
2010-05-29 18:59 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-05-29 21:01 ` Daniel D Jones
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[not found] ` <eMRWq-3I8-5@gated-at.bofh.it>
2010-05-22 11:35 ` David W Noon
2010-05-22 12:25 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-05-23 17:51 ` Daniel D Jones
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