On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:50:24 -0700 Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> thanks for this clarification! until yesterday, whe you > mmentioned blanks[whitespace], as id a song title, i hadn't > tought about songs like "Not Ready to Make Nice.ogg" e.g. > I am not sure why these players store the song in wav format > without deleting the files, but when my limited /tmp is full, > certain aps fail mysteriously. with a fwdozen more line of code > they could at least fail more gracefully. you can always do find /tmp/kde-*/ -iname "*wav" -print0 | xargs -0 rm -vf the advantage over doing using rm * or for * in ... is that if you have LOTS of files, the expanded list of files may be too much. find | xargs will deal with each file in turn. ( -print0 and -0 is to use NULL char as a list delimiter instead of space... ). _________________________ {Beto|Norberto|Numard} Meijome "A problem cannot be solved with the same type of thinking that created it." Albert Einstein I speak for myself, not my employer. Contents may be hot. Slippery when wet. Reading disclaimers makes you go blind. Writing them is worse. You have been Warned. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"