Non-alphanumeric names may have been skipped SH-2038
Anti-pattern
Major
a year ago
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a year old
Use -print0/-0 or -exec + to allow for non-alphanumeric filenames
1# Purge from executables
2rm $(find . -type f -executable | xargs)
Description
By default, xargs interprets spaces and quotes in an unsafe and unexpected way. Whenever it's used, it should be used with -0 or --null to split on \0 bytes, and find should be made to output \0 separated filenames.
POSIX does not require find or xargs to support null terminators, so you can also use find -exec <command> +.
Problematic code:
find . -type f | xargs md5sum
Preferred code:
find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 md5sum
find . -type f -exec md5sum {} +