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Re: [debian-mentors] config.sub and config.guess | .diff.gz bloat



I demand that Geert Stappers may or may not have written...

[snip]
>    find . -name exact-name-of-file | xargs rm -f
>  or
>    find . -name exact-name-of-file -print0 | xargs -0r rm -f
>  can be reduced to
>    rm -f exact-name-of-file

They can't: consider what happens when ./foo/exact-name-of-file exists.

> My message is:  avoid surprises from find.

:-)

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