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Remove files whose name contain a space using find and xargs
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| # I use find -print0 and xargs -0 when the filenames contain characters used as delimitors, | |
| # like space in this case | |
| # | |
| find '/tmp/temp results' -name '*.tmp' -print0 | xargs -0 -n 1 -J % rm '%' |
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