linux just became THAT much cooler i understand thanks :)
_________________________________ daniel a. g. quinn starving programmer many go fishing all their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. - henry david thoreau ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Crawford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 4:47 PM Subject: Re: removing individual files recursively > On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, daniel wrote: > > > that looks like it's what i want > > but for my own benefit... what does that _mean_ > > i'm sure i can just copy/paste it > > but i wanna know how it works.... > > > > find /home/username -name .AppleDouble -print0 | xargs -0 rm -rf > > Sorry ... > > find /path/to/look/in -name foo > > looks recursively under /path/to/look/in for any file with the name > foo (or whatever, you can use wildcards too). > > -print0 > > tells find to use a null byte as a separator between the paths it > spits out in case you have any directory names with whitespace such > as blanks or newlines in. > > xargs -0 > > reads arguments from standard input, using null bytes as separators > (to match what find is feeding it in this case, without the -0 it just > looks for whitespace) > > rm -rf > > as arguments to xargs, are the command it will execute using the > arguments it reads in; it will by default try to feed several of the > incoming arguments at once to the command, although there are options > to tell it to run fixed numbers of arguments each time. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
