Deleting difficult filenames

Nice site. Please fix this entry as it is a double command where a single command is needed only, and is faster. Also '.' is default location of find and is therefore not needed.

What you have:
find . -inum 12345 | xargs rm

What is faster and uses only one command:
find -inum 12345 -exec rm {} \;


Proof just time them. On my system I see:
xxx@xxx-laptop:~/Desktop$ time find -name xxx -exec rm {} \;

real    0m0.009s
user    0m0.004s
sys     0m0.004s
xxx@xxx-laptop:~/Desktop$ time find -name xxx | xargs rm

real    0m0.014s
user    0m0.012s
sys     0m0.004s
xxx@xxx-laptop:~/Desktop$

Or use:

find . -inum 12345 -print0 | xargs -0 rm

if there is a space in the file-name, and you're not in the hurry.

Actually,

find -inum 12345 -exec rm {} \;

uses two commands.

find -inum 12345 -delete

doesn't.

Touché Paul. I like how Nathan wrote a nice long comment complaining that the original submission ran two commands when his did as well. Granted, piping find output is slower than using the exec option, but it's still two commands. ^.^

The first option (with xargs) is DANGEROUS.

If the file name contains white spaces then you can end up with xargs splitting at the spaces and passing different names to those find found.

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