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From: bhoughto@cmdnfs.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: Beware xargs security holes
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Date: 27 Oct 90 05:49:52 GMT
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In article <john.656921455@troch> john@sco.COM (John R. MacMillan) writes:
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>find / -name '#*' -print | xargs patok '.*/#[^/]*' rm -f --
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>where patok elimnates arguments that don't match the pattern.
>[patok] shouldn't be too hard to write.

find / -name '#*' -print | egrep -v '.*/#[^/]*' | xargs rm -f --

				--Blair
				  "Took longer to type."