Try this command
find . -name core -exec rm {} \; -print
All the best and dont blame me if everything disappears and your machine
crashes and all hell turns loose:-)))
Shafi
Shantaram Sahyadri wrote:
> Hello to all,
> this small thing is killing me!!!
>
> man page of "find" says you can use "-exec" or "-ok"
> to execute any command from the result of find
> command, using this, consider I want to find and
> delete all "core" files I will use the command
>
> #find / -name core -print -exec rm{} ;
>
> or
>
> #find / -name core -print -ok rm {} ;
>
> but this does not work, I get a error msg saying no
> arguments specifed for -exec or -ok, I know this is
> silly but I want to find out the reason why is this
> not woking, is it fault of the program or my fault ie
> the way cmd is given,
> thankx
> Sahyadri
>
>
>
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