Re: deleting specific files

[Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org>]

"Jason P. Holland" <jphollan@earthlink.net> writes:

> find /dir -name "*.doc" -exec rm -rf {} \;

Nits:

* -r is probably not desired for this problem.  If you run across
   a directory named "something.doc", it's clearly not a file and you
   may not want to delete it.

* -f is possibly not desired for this problem.  If you run across a
   file that rm won't kill by default, you clearly thought it was
   worthy of protection at some point, and may want to look at it
   before nuking it.

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