Hi everybody I'd like to delete all symbolic links in a directory. I thought I'm smart and use find for that instead of doing it manually. OK. The find man page says (snipped):
-type c
File is of type c:
l symbolic link
So far so good.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/$ find . -type l
shows me all symbolic links. Great. Read further:
-exec command ;
Execute command; true if 0 status is returned. All following
arguments to find are taken to be arguments to the
command until an argument consisting of `;' is encountered.
The string `{}' is replaced by the current file name being
processed everywhere it occurs in the arguments to the command,
not just in arguments where it is alone, as in some versions of
find. Both of these constructions might need to be escaped
(with a `\') or quoted to protect them from expansion by the
shell. The command is executed in the starting directory.
This is not so clear anymore. But I think I understand that
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/$ find . -type l -exec rm {};
should do what I want. But I get an error message saying
find: Missing argument for "-exec".
Huh? Why? I then started quoting the {} and the ; with backslashes and '
but without success. So, please, what am I doing wrong?
Thanks,
joerg
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