Searching for specific files then delete them

[Dennis Kaarsemaker]

On di, 2006-08-29 at 14:24 +0100, Tony Arnold wrote:
> > find . -name *~ | xargs rm
> 
> or
> 
> find . -name *~ -exec rm {} \;
> 
> The rm command gets executed for each file found and the {} is
> substituted with the file name. The \; is necessary syntax to
> terminate
> the -exec option. 

That's not an 'or', that's the correct way.

The suggestion from Dieter will fail on filenames containing e.g.
spaces.

find . -name *~ -print0 | xargs -0 rm 

works better, but find's -exec is really much better (if you quote the
{} ;))

-- 
Dennis K.

Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so.
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