> Hi! > > I am wanting to install the Wireshark tarball, preparatory to which I > ran > aptitude purge to clear the deb out, together with its config files. > I then > ran locate to find any files left so that I could remove them > manually. I > got this: > > Tux:/home/lisi# locate wireshark [file list omitted] > What would be a sensible way of proceding from here? Manually delete > them one > by one? Or is there a simpler (=quicker) way??
One possible quick and simple command you can use is xargs. For example, locate -e0 wireshark | xargs -0r rm That would leave any directories with "wireshark" in the name, so an alternative command would be locate -e0b wireshark | xargs -0r rm -rf The -e option suppresses printing of non-existent files. The -b option matches only basenames. The -r option prevents xargs running its command on an empty file list. The pair of -0 options deals with white-space and non-printing characters in file names. -- Cheers, Clive -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110930090015.ga12...@rimmer.esmertec.com
