On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 12:25:09AM -0700, Clint Pachl wrote:
| In the caveats section it states the following:
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| Passing the output of find to other programs requires some care:
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| $ find . -name \*.jpg | xargs rm
| or
| $ rm `find . -name \*.jpg`
|
| would, given files ``important .jpg'' and ``important'', remove
| ``important''. Use the -print0 or -exec primaries instead.
|
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| Is this an error? The language indicates that ``important'' will be
| removed (and possibly ``important.jpg''; it's not clear) when
| executing both above commands. Is this correct?
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| If it is correct, then I don't get what the caveat is. For example:
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| $ touch important important.jpg
| $ find . -name \*.jpg | xargs rm
| $ ls
| important
|
| What does -print0 or -exec have to do with it?
There's a space in the first filename. "important .jpg".
Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd
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