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On 2014-01-30 01:51, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> On 1/30/14, Felix C. Stegerman <f...@obfusk.org> wrote:
>> On 2014-01-29 10:43, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote:
>
>>> And then: $ cd ~/bar && rm `find -name '.*'`
>>
>> Find is indeed very useful, but that's probably a bad idea.
>> You'll get into trouble with filenames containing spaces for
>> example.
>
>> If you really want to use find, use something like:
>>
>> $ find -depth -name '.?*' -exec echo rm -rv -- {} \;
>>
>> Which will not match '.' because it expects at least one
>> character after the dot, will handle filenames correctly,
>
> Does find do the filename-with-space escaping for us with those
> {braces}? (I don't have access to man pages ATM sorry).
I tested it with a file named ".foo bar baz", so yes ;-)
- - Felix
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