How to use locate with xargs

Many are aware of how to use find with xargs. For example, to remove those annoying .DS_Store files OS X leaves everywhere you can do:

find . -name .DS_Store -print0 | xargs -0 print rm -f

The key here is -print0 and -0 tells find and xargs to use the ascii null character instead of spaces. Recently I learned how to do something similar with locate as that command doesn’t have a -print0 option.

locate 'what_you_are_looking_for' -0 | xargs -0 rm -f

The -0 in the locate is equivalent to the -print0 in find.