[lug] getting rid of bad filenames?

Tkil tkil at scrye.com
Wed Jun 20 16:35:34 MDT 2001


>>>>> "Rob" == Rob Riggs <Riggs> writes:

Rob> I'd try 'find -inum ... -exec rm -f {} \;' instead to see if that
Rob> works. I think you may have a problem with xargs reading the
Rob> trashed filename from the pipe. It may be trying to parse the
Rob> data in some manner.

this is what "-print0" (on 'find') and "-0" (on 'xargs') is very
useful for...

t.



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