Re: Bash script question

[Bob McGowan <bob_mcgowan@symantec.com>]

The '-print0' of 'find' and the '-0' of 'xargs' (those are the number 
zero, not a capital o) prevent problems processing file names that 
contain white space (such as you might get from other OS's, but can also 
get on UNIX/Linux systems when using GUI programs that create files).

It uses a 'null' character (ASCII 0x0000) to terminate the character 
sequence that is the file name.  Note, in the documentation, it 
specifically talks about embedded newlines in file names, then mentions 
other white space.

FYI, the documentation of 'find' explains this clearly.

Bob

H.S. wrote:
> Stephen R Laniel wrote:
>
> > The easiest way wouldn't involve the filename at all. If you
> > know that a file created on date D is stamped with date D --
> > i.e., if your files all look like so:
> >
> > (13:09) slaniel@whitehail:~$ ls filename-20061207.tar.gz -rw-r--r--  1 
> > slaniel slaniel 0 2006-12-07 13:09 filename-20061207.tar.gz
> >
> > -- then you can just use find(1). You could do something
> > like
> >
> > find directoryName -mtime +X -print0 |xargs -0 rm '{}'
>
> just a related questions, how is the above different from:
> $> find directoryName -mtime +X -exec rm -f  '{}' \;
>
> ->HS

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