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

[Abigail]

On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 06:05:11AM +0100, A. Pagaltzis wrote:
> * Chris Devers <cdev...@pobox.com> [2007-11-02 04:55]:
> > Anything beyond rudimentary find has always scared me into
> > laziness. 
> 
> Would that every system I touch had Perl and the File::Find::Rule
> module installed. Given
> 
>     alias ffr='perl -MFile::Find::Rule'
> 
> Michael's original example would be
> 
>     ffr -e'unlink find->name("*.txt")->in(".")'


File::Find confuses me.

If I have the need to use a find like functionality from within a 
Perl program, I will *always* shell out and use find instead of
using File::Find.



Abigail

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