[Discuss] xargs guide

Rich Pieri richard.pieri at gmail.com
Mon Aug 3 18:10:39 EDT 2015


On 8/1/2015 12:36 PM, Daniel Hagerty wrote:
> with some other small optimizations you can get by having this canonical
> idiom open coded into find.  It saves brain cells, it doesn't obsolete
> xargs.

And it still doesn't work with other sources. For example, the Linux 
GOG.com downloader has an option to look for orphan files:

lgogdownloader --check-orphans --game mumble | grep "./" | xargs rm

-- 
Rich P.



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