On 2/13/06, Damien Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Why so many people is using xargs ? > > > > I mean for instance why bother use xargs AND a pipe to do somthing like this > > : > > > > find ./ -type f -print | xargs -i rm -f > > Instead of > > rm -f $(find ./ -type f -print) > > Because that will fail when there are too many arguments, and will > probably break on filenames with spaces (use xargs -0 for these).
with either version, hilarity is sure to ensue when you discover an accidentally created -r file. always use --.
