Beware xargs security holes

[Blair P. Houghton]

In article <john.656921455 at troch> john at sco.COM (John R. MacMillan) writes:
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>find / -name '#*' -print | xargs patok '.*/#[^/]*' rm -f --
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>where patok elimnates arguments that don't match the pattern.
>[patok] shouldn't be too hard to write.

find / -name '#*' -print | egrep -v '.*/#[^/]*' | xargs rm -f --

				--Blair
				  "Took longer to type."