On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 22:34, Thomas Adam wrote:
> --- William Ballard <40618.nospam@comcast.net> wrote:
>
> Just some tips on using find:
>
> > rm -r `find /usr/local -name '*vmware* -type d`
>
> find /usr/local -name '*vmware*' -exec rm -rf {} \;
I recommend learning 'xargs' (higher performance when 100s of files,
apparently less secure or something). As follows:
find /usr/local -name '*vmware*'|xargs rm -rf
cheers
zen