UPDATE: Sorry, disregard this.

It did work, I made a mistake; I just shouldn't have been using maxdepth.

I do think it is good to know, however, that

find | grep '#' | xargs rm

will "clean up" funnily named files in a directory. Of course, some of those funnily named files are there for a reason so use with care...

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I want to delete files containing #.

find -maxdepth 1 | grep '#'

gives me the files I want to delete, but when I try piping this into xargs with

find -maxdepth 1 | grep '#' | xargs rm

I get

rm: missing operand.

Is there some way I can get batched delete of files with special chars?

Thanks!