Feature, maybe misfeature

[Denis Beauchemin]

On Mon, 2002-09-16 at 15:07, Julian Field wrote:
> 
> As no-one seems to have posted anything, how about a line like this which
> will delete all files under the current directory more than 14 days old:
>    find . -type f -mtime +14 -print | xargs rm -f

I'd recommend using:
    find . -type f -mtime +14 -print0 | xargs -0 rm -f

That way you won't get into trouble if a file name contains spaces or
some other strange character.  Find puts a null character at the end of
each file name and xargs expects null-separated arguments.

Denis
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