On Wednesday, May 05, 2004 10:31 PM GMT+1, Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "Adam D. Barratt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> On Wed, 2004-05-05 at 19:17, Andreas Metzler wrote: >>> [...] >>> <nitpick follows> >>> PS: for i in images/*.ppm images/*.pbm; do rm -vf $$i.gz ... hurts >>> my eyes. Please quote $$i.gz, ie.: "$$i.gz". ;-) >>> PPS: I'd use sind find -print0 ... | xargs -0 rm .... >> >> Even better, xargs -0r rm. That way, rm won't throw an error if no >> files exist. (Yes, I know you know this :->) >> >> Adam > > Even better, if its in a makefile, use pattern subsitution to convert > the list of files to the .gz name and call rm just once. > (Unless you have a million of them, then xarg rm the list). Fair point. makefiles never really were my forté. > Doing such a for loop can take minutes on the slower buildds instead > of seconds. Yes, but doing it the efficient way didn't have the same comedic potential in this context. :-) (Hint: "dpkg -S $(which find) $(which xargs)" and look at the maintainer). Adam
