Nick W wrote:
On Wednesday 01 June 2005 16:02, William Astle wrote:
Nick W wrote:
On Wednesday 01 June 2005 15:54, William Astle wrote:
Nick W wrote:
because I'm lazy, how would one write a script to recursively rm files
ending in '~' starting at any given dir?
find $dir -type f -name \*~ -exec rm -f \{\} \;
Wow, that was quick. TY for assisting my laziness.
Nick
Some of us have a store of incantations in our heads. And camp on our
email. :)
if you're bored I'd be interested in a syntax explanation. Most of it seems
obvious except -f \{\} \;
With "find", {} is replaced with the filename and ; is the indicator of
the end of the command specified for -exec. So if "find" has the file
"./foo", the -exec would cause
rm -f ./foo
to be executed. The \ characters merely protect the {, }, and ; from
whatever shell you're using so it doesn't interpret them.
Basically, that whole find command can be thought of as saying:
For every file name in the tree that is a regular file (-type f) and
whose name ends in ~ (-name \*~), remove that file (-exec...).
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