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From: Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de (Joerg Schilling)
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] xargs and rm funkiness
Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 10:42:23
Message-Id: 4bfcfb00.9YSnTl2P0CKPNeJN%Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] xargs and rm funkiness by Patrick Holthaus
1 Patrick Holthaus <patrick.holthaus@×××××××××××××.de> wrote:
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3 > You might try:
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5 > find -name *.ext -print0 | xargs -0 rm
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7 But this is non-standard.
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9 UNIX introduced -exec {} + 1990 (when David Korn rewrote find(1)
10 and it is in the POSIX standared since some time.
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12 Jörg
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Re: [gentoo-user] xargs and rm funkiness Daniel D Jones <ddjones@××××××××××××.org>