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Re:A small primer on xargs by djoe48 on Monday May 14, 2012 @02:47AM (#3969794)
ls | grep junk | xargs rm # is dangerous due to The separator problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xargs#The_separator_problem.
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Re:A small primer on xargs by rcthompson on Monday May 14, 2012 @03:47AM (#3969960)
ls | grep junk | xargs trash-put

https://github.com/andreafrancia/trash-cli/#readme

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