Re [Gllug] rm -R not working on Fedora

[Russell Howe]

On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 10:59:45PM +0000, Tethys wrote:
> 	find . -type f -name "*.php.bak" -print0 | xargs -0 /bin/rm -f
> 
> You should always use that form anyway, just in case someone's added a
> filename or directory containing a space and you don't know about it.

Also, -r is a useful flag to xargs, although I don't know if it's a GNUism  or
not - it means xargs will only execute said program if there is some
input to pass it as parameters.

Some programs behave quite a bit differently when run without arguments!

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