"Adam D. Barratt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Wed, 2004-05-05 at 19:17, Andreas Metzler wrote:
>> [...]
>> <nitpick follows>
>> PS: for i in images/*.ppm images/*.pbm; do rm -vf $$i.gz ... hurts my
>> eyes. Please quote $$i.gz, ie.: "$$i.gz". ;-)
>> PPS: I'd use sind find -print0 ... | xargs -0 rm ....
>
> Even better, xargs -0r rm. That way, rm won't throw an error if no files
> exist. (Yes, I know you know this :->)
>
> Adam
Even better, if its in a makefile, use pattern subsitution to convert
the list of files to the .gz name and call rm just once.
(Unless you have a million of them, then xarg rm the list).
Doing such a for loop can take minutes on the slower buildds instead
of seconds.
MfG
Goswin
