Shell Scripting: Using bash with xargs

Question

I'm trying to write a bash command that will delete all files matching a specific pattern - in this case, it's all of the old vmware log files that have built up.

I've tried this command:

find . -name vmware-*.log | xargs rm

However, when I run the command, it chokes up on all of the folders that have spaces in their names. Is there a way to format the file path so that xargs passes it to rm quoted or properly escaped?

Answer 1

find . -name vmware-*.log | xargs -i rm -rf {}

Answer 2

GNU find

find . -name vmware-*.log -delete