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l0b0 on Aug 21, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: An Opinionated Guide to Xargs

I scanned until I saw `ls | egrep '.*_test\.(py|cc)' | xargs -d $'\n' -- rm`, and then stopped. This is a terrible idea[1][2].

[1] https://mywiki.wooledge.org/ParsingLs

[2] https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/128985/3645

tyingq on Aug 21, 2021 [–]

I'm surprised the links don't mention find. The -print0 flag makes it safe for crazy filenames, which pairs with the xargs -0 flag, or the perl -0 flag, etc. And you have -maxdepth if you don't want it to trawl.

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