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Subject: filesystem limits
From: jrvz at comcast.net (James R. Van Zandt)
Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 11:33:07 -0500
In-reply-to: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0501111842220.31215@buddha.badbelly.com> (message from Gregory Boyce on Tue, 11 Jan 2005 18:46:51 -0500 (EST))
References: <W760241372214231105476068@webmail4> <Pine.LNX.4.61.0501111842220.31215@buddha.badbelly.com>

Gregory Boyce <gboyce at badbelly.com> wrote:
>On Tue, 11 Jan 2005, Bill Holt wrote:
>
>> woops...
>> find . -name '*' | xargs rm
>
>I would normally do:
>
>find . -name '*' -exec rm {} \;

Both of these would fail if filenames have spaces.  I suggest

   find . -name '*' -exec rm "{}" \;

	  - Jim Van Zandt

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