files end with ~

Christopher Lemire christopher.lemire at gmail.com
Wed Feb 3 06:13:07 UTC 2010


sudo find / -name '*~' -exec  rm -vi '{}' \;

I made a mistake in the first email. The command to be executed on the
files found should come after -exec.

Christopher Lemire <christopher.lemire at gmail.com>
Ubuntu 64 bit Linux Raid Level 0



On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 6:11 AM, Christopher Lemire
<christopher.lemire at gmail.com> wrote:
> sudo find / -exec -name '*~' rm -vi '{}' \;




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