Re: [PATCH] kbuild: fix xargs error on make distclean

Michal Marek
2012-10-25T13:41:39Z

On 23.10.2012 03:32, Fengguang Wu wrote:
> /usr/bin/xargs: unmatched single quote; by default quotes are special to xargs unless you use the -0 option
>
> Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
> ---
> Makefile | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
> index bb9fff2..e5a64cc 100644
> --- a/Makefile
> +++ b/Makefile
> @@ -1033,7 +1033,7 @@ distclean: mrproper
> -o -name '*.bak' -o -name '#*#' -o -name '.*.orig' \
> -o -name '.*.rej' \
> -o -name '*%' -o -name '.*.cmd' -o -name 'core' \) \
> - -type f -print | xargs rm -f
> + -type f -print0 | xargs -0 rm -f

As much as I like the find -print0 | xargs -0 construct, it is not
portable unfortunately.

Michal