Re: recursive file deletion
On 13-Mar-2000 Bruce Stephens wrote:
> find . -name '*.bak' -print0 | xargs -0 rm
>
> Please check the documentation for find and xargs to make sure you
> understand what the above does!
>
Absolutely; I don't believe in magic. Knowing how things work is more important
to me than just knowing that it does.
I use find to pipe output to cpio, for making backups of specific file types,
(docs & dbfs), for l8r writing to a cd. I am absolutely ASTOUNDED at what I
don't know about the tools I use every day.
Thanks!
Paul
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E-Mail: Paul Kallstrom <paul@softracamerica.com>
Date: 13-Mar-2000
Time: 17:19:57
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