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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers when I try to run rm on multiple files I have problem to delete files with space Post 83821 by umen on Tuesday 20th of September 2005 02:48:26 AM
Old 09-20-2005
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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trace-cmd-options

TRACE-CMD-OPTIONS(1)													      TRACE-CMD-OPTIONS(1)

NAME

       trace-cmd-options - list available options from trace-cmd plugins

SYNOPSIS

       trace-cmd options

DESCRIPTION

       The trace-cmd(1) options command will examine all the trace-cmd plugins that are used by trace-cmd report(1) and list them.

SEE ALSO

       trace-cmd(1), trace-cmd-record(1), trace-cmd-start(1), trace-cmd-stop(1), trace-cmd-extract(1), trace-cmd-reset(1), trace-cmd-split(1),
       trace-cmd-list(1), trace-cmd-listen(1)

AUTHOR

       Written by Steven Rostedt, <rostedt@goodmis.org[1]>

RESOURCES

       git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/trace-cmd.git

COPYING

       Copyright (C) 2011 Red Hat, Inc. Free use of this software is granted under the terms of the GNU Public License (GPL).

NOTES

	1. rostedt@goodmis.org
	   mailto:rostedt@goodmis.org

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