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From: bhoughto@cmdnfs.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: Beware xargs security holes
Summary: I flame myself
Message-ID: <653@inews.intel.com>
Date: 27 Oct 90 16:57:35 GMT
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In article <649@inews.intel.com> bhoughto@cmdnfs.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton) writes:
>In article <john.656921455@troch> john@sco.COM (John R. MacMillan) writes:
>>
>>find / -name '#*' -print | xargs patok '.*/#[^/]*' rm -f --
>>
>>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 --

Lose the -v, dimwit.

>				  "Took longer to type."

				--Blair
				  "Egotistical, overreaching,
				   pretentious, typographically
				   unsound geek!"