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Comment by AdieuToLogic | Hacker News Reader

To support your recommendation and redress the strawman the article postulates, the post's author could have replaced:

  find . -name '*.log' | xargs rm

With:

  find . -name '*.log' -print0 | xargs -0 rm

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This one doesn't need xargs.

  find . -name '*.log' -delete

THANK YOU. I kept nodding along to all of the xargs comments, thinking “sure, but what about the even easier solution?”

As well as find has an -exec param to perform things one at a time or all with the same command by using a slash semicolon or a plus sign respectively:

  #order files from different levels in a file hierarchy by size:
  find . -type f -maxdepth 1 -exec ls -hlrS {} +

  #output metadata for each file sequentially
  find . -type f -maxdepth 1 -exec file {} \;

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