Hello. I just checkouted a big program. What I want to do is to remove all CVS/ folders from the hierarchy.
There might be other ways to do so (give me a hint?). What I can think of is to run find(1) to find out all CVS folders, and pass them as parameters of rm(1), but I don't know how to do so.
That's the purpose of the "xargs" command. For instance, if you wanted to recursively delete all files in the directory /home/foo ending in ".o", you could use the command
find /home/foo -name '*.o' -print | xargs rm -f
Of course, people will point out that find has options that will allow it to remove files directly. But using xargs is a more general technique that will work in other situations.
For instance, if you wanted to "touch" all your *.c files so that they have current modification times, you could use the following
find /home/foo -name '*.c' -print | xargs touch
Also, xargs knows about the maximum size allowable for the command line, and will use the minimum number of process invocations necessary.
Richard Coleman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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