xargs Is a Very Useful Tool

I was recently asked how to remove specific files of a specific extension (.tmp in this case). Well, of course you can find them by doing a find . -type f -name "*.tmp". Easy eh? But how to delete them if they span deep into the directory tree? Well, I suppose you can just append the output of your find command into a text file and then have a script do the rm'ing of the files. But, what if you can do all of that work in one command line?

So, I mentioned xargs and mentioned what it can do and gave a brief example and lo and behold, he saved a good 5 minutes of extra work. Awesome!

Now, to exemplify what I just said:
find . -type f -name "*.tmp" | xargs rm

Just think of all the possibilities now that you have all of this functionality! You can cp, tar, mv, etc. etc.

Enjoy! Cheers!