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1. The problem statement, all variables and given/known data:

Create a...

I figured it out. Odd to me. If find receives just a filename it will append the full path to xargs which delivers it to rm.


find $HOME -name "$1" -exec rm {} \;


Find will retrieve the...

I believe what is happening is rm is executing in the script on every directory and on failure of the first it stops although returns status 0.


find $HOME -name /directory/filename | xargs -l rm...

Corona, and those replying, I appreciate the assistance. Xargs is a utility that I will keep in my back pocket from now on. I used it successfully as follows:


find / -name "$file_name" -print0...

I have a string with escape differentiators as a result of searching for a file using find. Essentially find returned to my shell variable several absolute paths each ending with the file name and...