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[Gordon Messmer]

Dave Ihnat wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 04:10:50PM -0500, RGH wrote:
>>    ls -1d *log | xargs rm -Rf
>> Note that the first option is a one, not an el.
> 
> Or for that matter, just "echo *log" instead of ls.

Neither of those are reliable.  If there are enough matches to require 
xargs, then both ls and echo will fail.  xargs also doesn't care whether 
or not each entry is printed on its own line, so "ls -1" isn't better 
than "ls" with no argument.