[gentoo-user] xargs and rm funkiness

[Daniel D Jones]

Running the command:

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.

(The actual list is much longer than this, of course, or I wouldn't be using 
xargs.)  For some reason, the \n isn't being recognized as a separator but 
rather as a part of a single long file name.  Don't think $IFS would affect a 
command like rm but it doesn't appear to be the issue:

ddjones@merlin ~ $ set | grep IFS
IFS=$' \t\n'

I don't see any other ser variable which looks like a likely candidate to 
cause the behavior.  Anyone have a clue what's going on?

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