On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 10:11:38PM +0400, Alexey Vyskubov wrote:
> > % find `pwd` \( -name "*.log" -o -name "*.aux" \) -exec 'rm {}' ';'
> > find: rm /home/shao/report/main.log: No such file or directory[snipped Alexey's solution] It's nice to use xargs together with find. (You probably know this, but others may not have heard of it yet) With xargs you can write fairly readable statements as - using the command line above as example -: # find $(pwd) -name '*.log' -o name '*.aux' | xargs rm Using find's -print0 option together with xargs' -0 is nice to deal with spaces in file names. (Samba shares come to mind :) Might help someone... Sven -- I am the "ILOVEGNU" signature virus. Just copy me to your signature. This email was infected under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
