It makes me nervous that my fingers appear to feel that the right thing to type after '
find . type f -print |
' is '
xargs rm -f
'. Sometimes they're quite insistent about it.
I am not sure where this reflex comes from, because I don't think I've done that particular operation that many times. It certainly makes typing 'for all files'
find
operations a twitchy exercise, and I get to worry that someday I will, eg, accidentally delete all of WanderingThoughts instead of counting how many entries it has.
(Possibly I should deal with this by putting the
find
bit into a script I call
allfiles
or something, so I wouldn't be typing something that cues my reflexes. On the other hand, this is a reflex I should probably stamp out as fast as possible, so maybe I shouldn't.)