> Peter C. Ndikuwera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> exactly. find . -type f | xargs rm -f is faster than the 'exec' equivalent.
>
> In case your files have weird quotable characters, e.g. ` ' etc in them (or
> spaces) use:
> find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 rm -f
Nice one. Prior to your email, I always used the [embarrasingly complex]
method below:
find . -type f | awk '{ system("rm -f \"" $0 "\""); }'
Regards,
Gerald.
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