Subtle; and what a caveat it is. Thanks Paul and Otto for setting me straight.
Paul de Weerd wrote:
On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 12:25:09AM -0700, Clint Pachl wrote: | In the caveats section it states the following: | | | Passing the output of find to other programs requires some care: | | $ 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. | | | 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? | | If it is correct, then I don't get what the caveat is. For example: | | $ 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
