Re: Why people use `find ... |env -i xargs rm -f' instead of `find ...| xargs rm -f'?

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Subject: Re: Why people use `find ... |env -i xargs rm -f' instead of `find ...| xargs rm -f'?
From: Michael Wardle <michael.wardle@adacel.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 15:15:33 +1100
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On Wednesday, March 12, 2003 14:45, Dai Yuwen wrote:
> Why people want to clean the environment variables before rm files?

Some systems have an alias for "rm" that invokes "rm -i".  It's possible that 
running with env -i ensures that the true, unaliased command is run.

-- 
Michael Wardle
Adacel Technologies

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