Re: Delete all class files

[Justin Lee]

Keith T. Garner wrote:

On Mon, Sep 14, 1998 at 07:17:17, David Warnock said:
> I thought I should be able to connect "find . -name *.class" to "rm"
> somehow using redirection or pipes but cannot get it to work.

You were very close to one possible solution :)

find . -name *.class | xargs rm

xargs is a wonderful program that builds the command line from the
command given to it and the file names piped into it.

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I like to use rm `find . -name *.class`.  This will execute the find and output its response which just happens to be the input
to rm.

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