>>>>> "Zhasper" == Zhasper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Zhasper> On 04/07/07, Rick Welykochy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Amos Shapira wrote:
>>
>> > On 04/07/07, Rick Welykochy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> ls -R
>> <somefile> >> currently will not list <somefile> unless it is a
>> directory.
>> >
>> > $ ls --version > ls (GNU coreutils) 5.97 > ... > $ ls -lR x >
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 user group 177 2007-06-29 15:52 x
>> >
>> > "x" is a regular file and ls lists it. What version of ls(1) are
>> you using?
>>
>> Mea culpa.
>>
>> ls -R <somefile>
>>
>> will not list <somefile> in subdirectories, i.e.
>>
>> $ ls -lR somefile -rw-r--r-- 1 rick rick 0 2007-07-04 20:04
>> somefile
>>
>> $ find . -name somefile ./tmp/somefile ./somefile
Zhasper> <pedant>
Zhasper> In that circumstance, there's a way to do it with just ls:
Zhasper> spindle:~/tmp polleyj$ ls -lR */somefile somefile -rw-r--r--
Zhasper> 1 polleyj polleyj 0 Jul 4 21:20 hello/somefile -rw-r--r-- 1
Zhasper> polleyj polleyj 0 Jul 4 21:20 somefile
Zhasper> it doesn't scale though; for the general case, find is more
Zhasper> useful, as you've said. </pedant>
Zhasper> Regarding the original question, I second your suggestion:
Zhasper> find . -name "<junkfile>" -exec rm {} \;
Zhasper> However, I offer the caveat that it will file if there are
Zhasper> special characters (particularly " ") in the filename. As a
Zhasper> more robust (but more heavyweight, more forking, more cycles,
Zhasper> more ram (but - the amounts we're talking about are trivial,
Zhasper> except in extreme cases - just something to be aware of for
Zhasper> the odd times when this fails because you hit one of the
Zhasper> extreme cases)):
Zhasper> find . -name "<junkfile>" -print0 | xargs -0 rm
Actually lighter weight, less forking less execing, because this
version runs two procsses only, rather than a new invocation of rm for
each file found.
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