[pif]

Nice to know, thanks! But, how does it work with file names containing spaces (or other strange characters)?

Edit: just to clarify: my question concerns the zsh method. Regarding find+xargs, I wrote that comment :-) Actually, this edit would be an answer to zap; HN does not let me reply directly to him: is it to prevent flame-wars?

[q_revert]

   /tmp/ $ mkdir -p test1/test2/test3                                       

   /tmp/ $ touch test1/test2/test3/test4                                    
   
   /tmp/ $ ls -ltr test1/**/*(.)                                            
   -rw-r--r-- 1 usr grp 0 Aug  9 11:11 test1/test2/test3/test4              

   /tmp/ $ touch test1/test2/test3/test\ with\ spaces                       

   /tmp/ $ ls -ltr test1/**/*(.)                                            
   -rw-r--r-- 1 usr grp 0 Aug  9 11:11 test1/test2/test3/test4              
   -rw-r--r-- 1 usr grp 0 Aug  9 11:12 test1/test2/test3/test with spaces

[zaptheimpaler]

Thats what the print0 arg in find and the --null arg in xargs are for.

print0 prints the file name followed by a NULL character (rather than newline) Using the --null/-0 arg makes xargs look for NULLs as delimiters and treat everything else literally.