Re: find question

[Sven Burgener <svenb@bluewin.ch>]

On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 10:11:38PM +0400, Alexey Vyskubov wrote:
> > % find `pwd` \( -name "*.log" -o -name "*.aux" \) -exec 'rm {}' ';'
> > find: rm /home/shao/report/main.log: No such file or directory

[snipped Alexey's solution]

It's nice to use xargs together with find. (You probably know this, but
others may not have heard of it yet)

With xargs you can write fairly readable statements as - using the
command line above as example -:

# find $(pwd) -name '*.log' -o name '*.aux' | xargs rm

Using find's -print0 option together with xargs' -0 is nice to deal with 
spaces in file names. (Samba shares come to mind :)

Might help someone...

Sven
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