It's safer to:
find / -name core -type f | xargs rm -f
If you want to do it the hard way, do this:
find / -name core -type f -exec rm -f "{}" ";"
If you don't use the "quotes", the shell will interpret the {} and the
; and find will never get to see them.
-- Raju
>>>>> "Shafi" == A Shafi Mani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Shafi> Try this command find . -name core -exec rm {} \; -print
Shafi> All the best and dont blame me if everything disappears and
Shafi> your machine crashes and all hell turns loose:-)))
Shafi> 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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