On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 11:19:49AM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:50:24 -0700, Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > thanks for this clarification! until yesterday, whe you mmentioned > > blanks[whitespace], as id a song title, i hadn't tought about songs > > like "Not Ready to Make Nice.ogg" e.g. I am not sure why these > > players store the song in wav format without deleting the files, but > > when my limited /tmp is full, certain aps fail mysteriously. with a > > fwdozen more line of code they could at least fail more gracefully. > > For those cases, we have find(1) and xargs(1): > > #!/bin/sh > find /var/tmp -name '*.wav' -exec rm '{}' \+ > > or > > #!/bin/sh > find /var/tmp -name '*.wav' -print0 | xargs -0 rm > > Whitespace handling _is_ important in shell scripts, but it is also a > good idea to entirely avoid having to handle with it when we can :-) > well, by jove--er, Zeus:). i never knew that find had a print0 option. it fputs the entire path, and then glues on the '\0' byte. thank you very much , Giorgos.
gary PS: if a bunch of us ever get together and write a fbsd wiki, this has got to be in there! -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"