in reply to Re: Find -mtime or -ctime from a Find module?
in thread Find -mtime or -ctime from a Find module?

find /tmp -name core -type f -print | xargs /bin/rm -f

To avoid nasty surprises, change that to:

find /tmp -name core -type f -print0 | xargs -0 /bin/rm -f

This way, find uses a null char instead of a line feed to seperate filenames, and xargs expects a null char instead of any whitespace between filenames. As the null char is the only char that can not be part of a filename, this is the only way to reliably separate filenames.

Alexander

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