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From: djm@eng.umd.edu (David J. MacKenzie)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: a compromise safe way to use find and xargs rm together
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Date: 27 Oct 90 14:58:28 GMT
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Here is another safe way to use find and xargs together, if you don't
mind making files with newlines in the name immune to removal.

find / ! -name '*
*' ! -name '.*
*' -atime -10 -print | xargs rm -f
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David J. MacKenzie <djm@eng.umd.edu> <djm@ai.mit.edu>