In article <c31ed75a-0115-44fc-940d-c2956c46e...@sbcglobal.net>, Kevin Krieser <k_krie...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > > On Jan 23, 2010, at 6:45 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > On Sat, 23 Jan 2010, Marcelo M. Garcia wrote: > > the find ... -exec variation will invoke a new "rm" command for > > every single file it finds, which will simply take more time to run. > > beyond that, the effect should be the same. > > > Unless there are files or directories with spaces in them, in which case the > xargs variant can fail.
That's what -print0 is for, together with the -0 option to xargs: find dir1 dir2 -name '*.foo' -print0 | xargs -0 rm Cheers Tony -- Tony Mountifield Work: t...@softins.co.uk - http://www.softins.co.uk Play: t...@mountifield.org - http://tony.mountifield.org _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
