Re: Hashing and directories

[Tim Wright]

On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 10:04:10AM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> 
> xargs is very ugly. I want to rm 12*. Just plain "rm 12*". *Not* "find
> . -name "12*" | xargs rm, which has terrible issues with files names
> 
> "xyzzy"
> "bla"
> "xyzzy bla"
> "12 xyzzy bla"
> 

Getting a bit OffTopic(TM) here, but that's why the GNU versions of the tools
wisely added options to output '\0' rather than '\n' as a separator for the
data i.e.
find . -name '12*' -print0 | xargs -0 rm
does exactly what you want it to - no surprises.

The point about arbitrary limits, is, however well taken. The fact that the
space for exec args and environment historically was static and of a fixed
size is not a good reason to perpetuate the limitation.

Tim

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