basic command pipe question

[Todd Zullinger]

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Chris Mohler wrote:
> How about something like:
> 
> for i in $(find -iname "*.zip"); do rm  $i; done;
> 
> Not pretty but that's roughly what I used to move a bunch of JPEGs
> with .jpg and .JPG extentions...

One thing that would bite you on a for loop like this is files with
spaces in them.  Using a while loop is one way to get around that if
you want to do the rm one at a time for whatever reason:

find -iname "*.zip" | while read i; do rm "$i"; done;

At least, that's the way I tend to do it when I'm dealing with files
which contain spaces.  Using xargs, you can use the -0 option to
handle files with spaces in them.  (I really ought to use of xargs
more often. :)

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