Re^4: UNIX command - remove 0 byte file

Actually, xargs is supposed to handle that. It will break the command line when it gets too long (1024 words, I think) and run the command again.

But the most annoying thing with xargs is that it doesn't handle spaces or other special characters well:

server:~> ls
a file
server:~> ls | xargs rm
a: No such file or directory
file: No such file or directory
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You're forced to do tricks with sed (or perl -e) to get this to work.

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Re^5: UNIX command - remove 0 byte file by YuckFoo (Abbot) on Sep 23, 2005 at 17:28 UTC
GNU xargs offers -i to deal with spaces. `ls \| xargs -i ls` [download] XargFoo	[reply] [d/l]