Delete files returned by find
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Task: Find all files whose name contains a specific pattern and delete them.
Finding the files (or folders) is trivial using find[1] – however, we can not simply pipe the output of find to rm because rm[2] does not read input from standard input.
The solution is to use xargs[3]. The example below finds all files and folders containing ".svn" and deletes them:
find -name .svn -print0 | xargs -0 rm -f -r
The -print0 option of find causes each entry to be a 0-terminated string rather than EOL terminated. It is consistent with the -0 option of rm.
