Etaoin Shrdlu <shr...@unlimitedmail.org> wrote:
> On Saturday 29 May 2010, Daniel D Jones wrote:
> > On Wednesday 26 May 2010 06:42:08 Joerg Schilling wrote:
> > > Patrick Holthaus <patrick.holth...@uni-bielefeld.de> wrote:
> > > > You might try:
> > > >
> > > > find -name *.ext -print0 | xargs -0 rm
> > >
> > > But this is non-standard.
> >
> > In what way is this non-standard? That is, what standard is it contrary
> > to?
>
> SUS (aka POSIX), although some people are pushing to include -print0 | xargs
> -0 into the standard. What Joerg meant is that the above construct will only
> run when using GNU find and xargs. Of course, if you're running Linux, that
> is
> probably the case already anyway.
>
And there is a big cheavat against this proposal as xargs -0 was introduced
long after -exec + exsists and as introducing xargs -0 would force us to
change _many_ other utilities too in order to come to a consistent overall
behavior again. For this reason, there was even the proposal to instead remove
"xargs" from the standard as -exec + does everything that is needed.
Jörg
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