On Tue, 2007-03-20 at 09:50 -0600, Phillip Hellewell wrote: > On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 03:39:19PM -0600, Michael L Torrie wrote: > > > > find *.txt | while read f; do rm "$f" ; done > > > > That avoids the problem of the commandline being too long (shell > > expansion will sometimes cause your command to fail if there are too > > many files. > > Cool, I like the pipe while approach. But does what you wrote really > avoid the command-line being too long? Wouldn't you have to write this > instead?:
I messed it up. > > find -name "*.txt" | while read f; do rm "$f" ; done Correct. > > It's a subtle difference, but I believe what you wrote above could still > have the problem since the *.txt would be expanded by the shell before > being passed to find. > > Phillip > > P.S. Of course, there is another difference which is that what I wrote > does a recursive search. So to prevent that you can do: > > find -name "*.txt" -maxdepth 1 | while read f; do rm "$f" ; done > -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
