[Linux-disciples] delete a whole lot of files

[Stephen R Laniel]

On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 01:25:12PM -0500, Adam Rosi-Kessel wrote:
> I would suggest the slight modification:
> 
> find /home/church -iname '*.jpg' -print0 |xargs -i0 rm '{}'
> 
> although in this case I don't think it would make any difference.

Right. In most cases you'll have Problems if you try to do

find [some args] -print0 |xargs -0 someCommand

without specifying how the arguments fit in (especially
'mv'). In the special case of rm, though, I find some nice
aesthetic purity in leaving off the '{}'.

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