I'm trying to remove the crappy remnants of windows on my linux box. one thing I want to get rid of is the Thumbs.db and desktop.ini files that were in my music folder and got copied over. I was trying to do it by piping find to xargs but that isn't working. It should and I'm trying to figure out why it isn't. I know I could just use the -exec option  but now I just want to know why what I'm trying to do isn't working.          # find / -name "Thumbs.db" | xargs rm according to this <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8274/sam0306g/">http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8274/sam0306g/</a> that should work... I've tried variations          #find / -type f -name "Thumbs.db" -print | xargs rm and all sorts of other things. I usually get this           xargs: unmatched single quote I looked the error up and what I found was of no help. at least to me... I didn't get it. Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong and how to do it properly?