In<[🔎] 20100924141439.GN15819@wasteland.homelinux.net>, Jochen Schulz wrote:
Enrico Weigelt:
do_rm() {
while read FILE ; do rm -fr $FILE ; done
}
That won't work with spaces in filenames. :) "find … -exec" or "find …
-print0 | xargs -0" are the best ways to do this. Apart from "find …
-delete" which I regularly forget. :)
Actually, that *will* work with spaces in the filenames[1], since the shell
built-in read doesn't stop until end of line. There are some other, even less
common, characters that can confuse read though: '\', '"', and NL.