The Troubleshooters.Com xargs Guide
xargs is a black box. You seldom know what it's going to do, and given the kinds of things it's used for, this can be very dangerous. Personally, I never put rm at the end of an xargs equipped command line. I'm not that brave: I'd rather pipe to a file, and manually convert that file to a bunch of deletions while making sure I'm not doing anything stupid.
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