Things you (probably) didn't know about xargs: "Handling files or folders with spaces in the name
One problem with the above examples is that it does not correctly handle files or directories with a space in the name. This is because xargs by default will split on any white-space character. A quick solution to this is to tell find to delimit results with NUL (\0) characters (by supplying -print0 to find), and to tell xargs to split the input on NUL characters as well (-0).
Remove backup files recursively even if they contain spaces
find . -name '*~' -print0 | xargs -0 rm
Security note: filenames can often contain more than just spaces."
