On Saturday 27 Sep 2003 12:14 pm, Anarky wrote:
> Richard Urwin wrote:
> >On Saturday 27 Sep 2003 11:10 am, Anarky wrote:
> >> any way to give some kind of command to delete all files smaller
> >>than a specified size in a certain path recursivelly?
> >
> >A quick "man find" shows that find can do the job. I wouldn't like to give
> > you the exact command as I haven't used it yet.
>
> ok, so with this I can find them .. but how do I then delete them?
from man find:
ACTIONS
-exec command ;
Execute command; true if 0 status is returned. All following
arguments to find are taken to be arguments to the command until
an argument consisting of `;' is encountered. The string `{}'
is replaced by the current file name being processed everywhere
it occurs in the arguments to the command, not just in arguments
where it is alone, as in some versions of find. Both of these
constructions might need to be escaped (with a `\') or quoted to
protect them from expansion by the shell. The command is exe-
cuted in the starting directory.
So your find command might include
-exec rm \{\} \;
If it were me I'd try
-exec echo \{\} \;
first.
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