Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote: > xargs can suck with anything but plain ASCII-without-spaces filenames., > and it quite unnecessary here. > > find -name *.ext -exe rm "{}" \; > > or maybe even > > find -name *.ext -exe rm "{}" +
Just avoid xargs as it is the source of the proplem. find -name *.ext -exec some-command "{}" + Is the preferred method since 1990. Jörg -- EMail:jo...@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin j...@cs.tu-berlin.de (uni) joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily