Question

I’d like to do this in OS X:

ls -rt | xargs rm -i

However, rm is choking on the fact that some of the files have whitespaces.

I mention OS X because BSD’s version of ls does not have a -Q flag.

Is there a way to do this without having to use find -print0?

Answer 1

Try this

while read -u 3
do
  rm -i "$REPLY"
done 3< <(ls -rt)