Re: find . -print0 -name 'foo' | xargs rm

[A. Pagaltzis]

* Peter da Silva <pe...@taronga.com> [2007-11-02 01:31]:
> On 01-Nov-2007, at 19:16, A. Pagaltzis wrote:
>> So they should have done what sed and awk do and made
>> expression a string passed either as first parameter or as an
>> argument to the an -e switch.
>
> That leads to quoting hell, which find is trying to avoid.

Leads to?

    find . \( -name 'foo*' -o -name '*bar' \) -prune -o -exec rm {} \;

You are already roasting, buddy.

Regards,
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Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>