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Re:A small primer on xargs by lubomir on Monday May 14, 2012 @04:37AM (#3970049)
Instead of -exec rm {} \; you could use -delete option as well.
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Re:A small primer on xargs by babarock on Monday May 14, 2012 @04:42AM (#3970062)
This option is not portable at all. For instance, it won't work on Solaris' find. I strongly advise against the use of non portable options.
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Re:A small primer on xargs by exDM69 on Monday May 14, 2012 @05:56AM (#3970277)
It may be a good idea when writing scripts that have to be portable.

But there's quite a lot of nice non-standard options in the GNU userspace tools, and it would be a shame not to use them when available.

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