Re: [slime-devel] .slime/fasl/ directory names

On Mon, 12 Sep 2005, Lynn Quam wrote:

find . -name '*.x86f' | xargs grep '(defun ' grep: ./cmu-snapshot: No such file or directory grep: 2005-09: No such file or directory

Admittedly, this is not a good example, but consider:

 find . -name '*.x86f' | xargs rm

Not to delve into the intricacies of Unix shells, but find and xargs both provide facilities specifically to accommodate each other in this case:

find -print0 xargs --null

So, your example would become

find . -print0 -name '*.x86f' | xargs --null rm

Of course, such issues are one of the things that inspire my interest in CL. :)

-A

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