Since you guys are already using find, you could just pass the command
to it directly to do the deletion. I'm thinking of something like this:
find -name '*.txt' -exec rm {} \;
Now, this would delete them one at a time, but that's probably okay in
this situation. You might have to put quotes around the {}, if you have
some text files that have spaces in the name, etc.
Maybe I'm not understanding the problem, though.
Lloyd Brown
Eduardo Sanz Garcia wrote:
>
>>>> You can also use a bash for loop:
>>>>
>>>> for myfile in *.txt ; do rm "$myfile" ; done
>>>>
>>>>
>>> or:
>>>
>>> find *.txt | while read f; do rm "$f" ; done
>>>
>>> That avoids the problem of the commandline being too long (shell
>>> expansion will sometimes cause your command to fail if there are too
>>> many files.
>>>
>>>
>> If you want to avoid expansion, you should have said:
>>
>> find -name '*.txt' | while read f; do rm "$f" ; done
>>
>> Bash and its pesky quoting rules...
>>
>>
> The quotes are *absolutely* necessary, if not:
> /usr/bin/find: Argument list too long
>
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