Neil Bothwick <[email protected]> wrote:
> xargs can suck with anything but plain ASCII-without-spaces filenames.,
> and it quite unnecessary here.
>
> find -name *.ext -exe rm "{}" \;
>
> or maybe even
>
> find -name *.ext -exe rm "{}" +
Just avoid xargs as it is the source of the proplem.
find -name *.ext -exec some-command "{}" +
Is the preferred method since 1990.
Jörg
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