Beware xargs security holes

[Alex Martelli]

bhoughto at cmdnfs.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton) writes:
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>>find / -name '#*' -print | egrep -v '.*/#[^/]*' | xargs rm -f --
>Lose the -v, dimwit.

Won't "egrep '/#'" pass EXACTLY the same lines as "egrep '.*/#[^/]*'"???
After all, it's not as if the RE had to match ALL of the incoming line!
Yours for simpler, more regular expression of Regular Expressions...
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