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IMPORTANT WARNING! Re: I'm too stupid to use find, can someone help me out, please?



On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 10:36:06AM +0200, Joerg Johannes wrote:
> 
> jorg@localhost:/tmp/$ find . -type l -exec rm {};
> 

By now other have answered your wustion, but:

VERY IMPORTANT:

 when yo are debugging a shell command like this one,
se the echo command instead of the rm command.  That way you get a list
of files instead of deleting them, and if your list iw wrong, you won't lose
evrything!!



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