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09-19-2005
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when I try to run rm on multiple files I have problem to delete files with space
Hello
when I try to run rm on multiple files I have problem to delete files with space. I have this command : find . –name "*.cmd" | xargs \rm –f it doing the work fine but when it comes across files with spaces like : "my foo file.cmd" it refuse to delete it why? 
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09-20-2005
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In this case when rm encounters a filename such as "my foo file.cmd", the space seperated words in the file will be treated as different files. So rm will try to remove files named "my", "foo", and "file.cmd", which it will not find.
A workaround for this will be: Code:
find . -name "*.cmd" -exec rm {} \;
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