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



Am Di, den 06.07.2004 schrieb Hendrik Boom um 16:39:
> 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!!

Yes, thanks for the warning, that is what I actually did...

joerg

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