Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 2 Mar 2001 11:33:45 -0800 | From | Tim Wright <> | Subject | Re: Hashing and directories |
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On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 10:04:10AM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: > > xargs is very ugly. I want to rm 12*. Just plain "rm 12*". *Not* "find > . -name "12*" | xargs rm, which has terrible issues with files names > > "xyzzy" > "bla" > "xyzzy bla" > "12 xyzzy bla" >
Getting a bit OffTopic(TM) here, but that's why the GNU versions of the tools wisely added options to output '\0' rather than '\n' as a separator for the data i.e. find . -name '12*' -print0 | xargs -0 rm does exactly what you want it to - no surprises.
The point about arbitrary limits, is, however well taken. The fact that the space for exec args and environment historically was static and of a fixed size is not a good reason to perpetuate the limitation.
Tim
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