On Apr 6, 2009, at 5:11 PM, Dan Nelson wrote:
In the last episode (Apr 06), John Almberg said:
This is a real newbie question, but I can't figure it out...
I want to remove all .tar files from a directory tree. I think
something
like the following should work, but I must have something wrong,
because
it doesn't:
find . -name *.tar -exec rm /dev/null {} \;
find . -name "*.tar" -delete
Make sure you quote your wildcards so the shell doesn't expand
them, and use
the -delete primary to save a fork/exec for each filename.
Fantastic. I never noticed the -delete option before. Amazing what
you can find in a man page if you know it's there :-)
Thanks: John
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