Re: [LIH] what is this meaning

[Binand Raj S.]

>>>>> "Suresh" == Suresh Ramasubramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

    >>  Security issues. One has to be very careful about doing
    >> something like that.  I guess you are suggesting something
    >> like: find /tmp | xargs rm -rf which can cause quite a lot of
    >> havoc, I assure you.
 
    Suresh>  Especially in certain 'nixen where partitions are mounted
    Suresh> under /tmp ...  I do remember seeing a sysadmin horror
    Suresh> story page.  This was a recurring theme there ...

Yes - that is one. Another is directory names that end in
newlines. Fortunately, find/xargs have command line switches to take
care of these two problems.

Binand


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