Re: is there a way to use find and rm together?
How about:
rm /home/ftpusers/*/.bash*
But if you do want to use find(1), check out man find, and pay special
attention to the -exec option.
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Andrew J Perrin - Ph.D. Candidate, UC Berkeley, Dept. of Sociology
(Soon: Asst Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
andrew_perrin@unc.edu - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin
On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Martin Würtele wrote:
> hi,
>
> we have ftp users in home/ftpusers and we disabled shell acces for them.
> now we have .bash* files in every user directory under /home/ftpusers.
>
> is there a way to use something like
> find /home/ftpusers -name .bash* | rm
> unfortunately this was what i hoped that could work but i only get
> rm: too few arguments.
>
> i think this is because rm gets every file followed by newline from find.
> so if i use
> find -name .bash* -print0
> i get the list without newlines but if i use
> find -name .bash* -print0 | ls
> i get the contents of the current directory.
>
> any ideas how to solve this problem?
>
> tia martin
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