On Sat, 12 Feb 2000, A Page in the Life of ... wrote:
> -=> I've got two related but separate things I need to do.
> -=> 1) Recursivly assend into a directory and remove files that are under a certain
> -=> size (lets just say 5k)
> -=> 2) Recursivly assend into a directory and move all the files of a certain
> -=> pattern (*.html) to one directory
>
> man find
>
> for the first try:
>
> find /foo -size 5k -print
>
> if it lists the files you want try:
>
> find /foo -size 5k -exec rm {}\;
>
> for the second it is:
> find /foo -name \*.html -exec rm {}\;
Usin the "exec" functionality of the find command is often not very
efficient. Instead, it is common to use the "xargs" command in a pipe
instead. For example:
find /foo -size 5k -print | xargs rm
The second example provided doesn't really do what was requested. I would
suggest that instead of using the rm command that you do somethin like
this:
find /foo -name \*.html -print | while read file ; do \
mv $file /other/directory ; done
- Marc
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