On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 12:16:44PM +0000, Nick Cleaton wrote:
>And let's hope nobody did  
>
>   mkdir "/tmp/x\n/\nx", 0755;
>   mkdir "/tmp/x\n/\nx/French", 0755;
>
>or you're in deep doodoo.

Change
find / $findargs -print | xargs rm -rf
to
find / $findargs -print0 | xargs -0 rm -rf

and expect it to fail if you don't have GNU-compatible find and xargs.
But the existence of those options is why I insist on having
GNU-compatible find and xargs....

R

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