On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 15:01 +0100, RW wrote: > On Wed, 16 Jul 2008 15:52:59 +0930 > Wayne Sierke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 11:42 +1000, Norberto Meijome wrote: > > > 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... ). > > > > > Note that - as highlighted in previous discussions on the fbsd lists > > re the use of xargs with find - find is eminently capable of handling > > large argument lists and filenames_with_spaces with its own -exec > > primary: > > > > find /tmp/kde-*/ -iname "*wav" -exec rm -vf {} \; > > > > to exec rm for each file individually, or: > > > > find /tmp/kde-*/ -iname "*wav" -exec rm -vf {} \+ > > > > to exec rm for multiple files at once. > > > > Piping to xargs in this case is unnecessary. > > > You don't even need exec, since find has a -delete option.
Except that the -delete primary of find is not the equivalent of rm -vf, or even of just rm -f. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"