* Michael Jinks <mji...@uchicago.edu> [2007-11-02 00:30]: > On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 04:03:20PM -0700, Michael G Schwern wrote: > > > > $ find . -print0 -name '*.txt' | xargs -0 rm > > I hates xargs. It has its place I guess, but this ain't it, > and souping up GNU find to (try to, sometimes) feed nice path > names to xargs seems only to have made GNU find that much more > hateful. > > Since I learned how to make -exec do my bidding, I think I can > count on one hand the number of times I've had to hate xargs.
Except that's a red herring, because if he had but `-exec rm \;` where he put his `-print0`, the exact same thing would have happened. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>
