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by johnwfinigan 3908 days ago
Excluding filenames containing newlines, I wonder how many weird corner cases this would reveal:

    ls | tr '\n' '\0' | xargs -0 rm
I've been annoyed by ls and xargs not playing together here and there, but the above only just occurred to me. Not sure if it's a good idea yet or not!