-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Dave Korn on 8/24/2006 1:43 PM: >> Is there any way around to do what I want , i.e remove a large number of log >> files using the rm command with the wildcard * argument. > > "find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -print0 | xargs -0 rm"
Except that deletes files starting with . (when rm * does not), and does not delete symlinks (when rm * does). Also, you could save a process or two: find -name '*.log' -delete - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] volunteer cygwin findutils maintainer -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFE7gaE84KuGfSFAYARAjCDAJ9T1eBfELeoIlcuhyX9IcnZJpG6gQCfRjUs djb4wKwykyAzmZJZNwtPWmE= =MWE9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
