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From: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: a compromise safe way to use find and xargs rm together
Summary: do not do this
Message-ID: <12739:Oct2922:13:1890@kramden.acf.nyu.edu>
Date: 29 Oct 90 22:13:18 GMT
References: <DJM.90Oct27105828@egypt.eng.umd.edu>
Organization: IR
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In article <DJM.90Oct27105828@egypt.eng.umd.edu> djm@eng.umd.edu (David J. MacKenzie) writes:
> 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

No! -name only checks the last component of the path. (A few versions of
find have a -path that would do the trick here, though there are still
all the other metacharacters to worry about, and this feels like quite a
kludge.)

---Dan