Formatting output of find suitable for rm

JussiKp · 12-23-2006, 05:29 PM

I'd like to remove all mp3-files in /mnt/foo.

I tried find -iname "*.mp3" | replace ' ' '\ ' ' | rm -f etc, but it did not work. Of course I have to replace '(' with '\(' etc and maybe remove line feeds but how should I do it, is there some easy solution?

raskin · 12-23-2006, 05:45 PM

Eh... You meant 'xargs rm -f' and no escaping, or you have mp3's with CR in name?

That is
echo filename1 filename2 | xargs rm

JussiKp · 12-23-2006, 11:29 PM

File paths in folders contain whitespaces, braces etc, e.g. /mnt/foo/Some random folder (2006)/file.mp3.

raskin · 12-24-2006, 03:00 AM

For xargs only carriage returns matter. Everything else is ok.