how do you use rm to del found files

[Duston, Hal]

dattaway at attaway.net [mailto:dattaway at attaway.net] wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Jun 2002, Gene Dascher wrote:
> 
> > This should do it for you:
> > 
> > find . -name "*.class" -exec rm -rf {} ; -print
> 
> or use the handy backticks, which runs the commands placed 
> within them, 
> returning its output in its place:
> 
> rm `find . -name *.class -print`

The first solution suffers from calling rm individually on
each file to be removed, and is therefore slower on large 
numbers of files..

The second solution suffers from "not working" if the size 
of the list of files exceeds the kernel's command line 
limitation.

A solution which suffers from neither of these problems is

find . -name '*.class' -print | xargs rm

Hal