exec command

[Ioannis Vranos]

On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 3:28 PM, CJ Tres <ctres at grics.net> wrote:
> On 01/14/2012 05:42 AM, PleegWat wrote:
>
>> You need to terminate the argument to -exec with a ;, which needs to
>> be quoted or escaped for the shell, and you need to include an
>> argument of {} which will be replaced by the name of the file find has
>> found. You also seem to have confused the argument order to find.
>>
>> find $path -type f -iname '*.html' -exec rm -rf {} \;
>>
>> Here you should fill your path for $path.
>> Specifically when deleting files, you may also use the find action
>> - -delete, which has the same effect as -exec rm:
>>
>> find $path -type f -iname '*.html' -delete
>>
>> This version should be faster when a lot of files need to be deleted.
>
>
> Yes, thanks, much simpler.
> I've run it on a single folder in a sub directory as a test.
> It eliminated the majority of the files but another issue has cropped up.
> All the files are of the "HTML document (text/html)" type, but not all have
> html or .html in the file name. In fact there is nothing else common to all
> files - within their names -that need to be deleted and there is a single
> plain text document in each folder that needs to be excluded from the
> -delete command.
> I'm guessing the answer to this in in man find or some other man page?

Assuming you want the easy way, in Ubuntu 11.10 desktop, you can use
the "Search for files" program.



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