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Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 15:41:32 +0200
From: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] kbuild: fix xargs error on make distclean
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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