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From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] xargs and rm funkiness
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On Saturday 2010-05-22 09:46, Neil Bothwick wrote:

>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.,

That's why you use NUL terminators. Simple as that.

Also find's -exe calls rm *for each* file when used with \;.

>find -name *.ext -exe rm "{}" \;
>
>or maybe even
>
>find -name *.ext -exe rm "{}" +