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Re:Useful Perl one-liners (2013) by tyingq on Tuesday November 29, 2016 @01:36PM (#13065124)
You can...it spawns a lot of processes.

And typically, I'm doing more than 'print;chomp;unlink'. Maybe renaming files from <pattern>.foo to <pattern>.bar or whatever.

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Re:Useful Perl one-liners (2013) by emmelaich on Tuesday November 29, 2016 @11:10PM (#13068426)
You should use the -delete predicate/arg to find to delete things if your find has it.

To avoid race conditions.

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