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Perl also supports -0 and is handy for some use cases because it won't spawn a process per line like xargs.

  # remove files without spawning lots of rm processes
  find . -name "*.xyz" -print0 -type f| perl -0 -ne 'chomp;print "$_\n";unlink;'


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