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| From: | Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-user@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-user] xargs and rm funkiness | ||
| Date: | Sat, 22 May 2010 07:47:29 | ||
| Message-Id: | 20100522084621.27a5ad56@zaphod.digimed.co.uk | ||
| In Reply to: | [gentoo-user] xargs and rm funkiness by Daniel D Jones |
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| 1 | On Fri, 21 May 2010 21:49:49 -0400, Daniel D Jones wrote: |
| 2 | |
| 3 | > find -name *.ext | xargs -0 rm |
| 4 | > |
| 5 | > I get the result: |
| 6 | > |
| 7 | > rm: cannot remove `Long File Name One.ext\nLong File Name Two.ext\nLong |
| 8 | > File Name Three.ext\n': File name too long. |
| 9 | |
| 10 | xargs can suck with anything but plain ASCII-without-spaces filenames., |
| 11 | and it quite unnecessary here. |
| 12 | |
| 13 | find -name *.ext -exe rm "{}" \; |
| 14 | |
| 15 | or maybe even |
| 16 | |
| 17 | find -name *.ext -exe rm "{}" + |
| 18 | |
| 19 | |
| 20 | -- |
| 21 | Neil Bothwick |
| 22 | |
| 23 | He who asks a question is a fool for a minute, |
| 24 | He who doesn't ask is a fool for a lifetime. |
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| Re: [gentoo-user] xargs and rm funkiness | Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@×××××××.de> |
| Re: [gentoo-user] xargs and rm funkiness | Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de (Joerg Schilling) |