I'm surprised the links don't mention find. The -print0 flag makes it safe for crazy filenames, which pairs with the xargs -0 flag, or the perl -0 flag, etc.

I'm surprised the links don't mention find. The -print0 flag makes it safe for crazy filenames, which pairs with the xargs -0 flag, or the perl -0 flag, etc. And you have -maxdepth if you don't want it to trawl.