In article <C31ED75A-0115-44FC-940D-C2956C46EA05 at sbcglobal.net>, Kevin Krieser <k_krieser at sbcglobal.net> wrote: > > On Jan 23, 2010, at 6:45 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > On Sat, 23 Jan 2010, Marcelo M. Garcia wrote: > > the find ... -exec variation will invoke a new "rm" command for > > every single file it finds, which will simply take more time to run. > > beyond that, the effect should be the same. > > > Unless there are files or directories with spaces in them, in which case the > xargs variant can fail. That's what -print0 is for, together with the -0 option to xargs: find dir1 dir2 -name '*.foo' -print0 | xargs -0 rm Cheers Tony -- Tony Mountifield Work: tony at softins.co.uk - http://www.softins.co.uk Play: tony at mountifield.org - http://tony.mountifield.org