You can use:
find [whatever] -exec rm -rf '{}' \;
or
find [whatever] | xargs rm -rf
Usually, the answer to your question would be: use xargs or put the second command between apostrophes. Something like:
vi `which mozilla`
I think if you use rm -rf `find [whatever]` it might work..
DON'T use these lines unless you're absolutely sure your find will return exactly what you want.. rm -rf is the most destructive Unix command, so if you don't know what you're doing, maybe you should wait a couple of months until you do. :)
Amen ;-)
Seriously, the best thing you can do is just run the 'file listing' or 'data portion' of any command you're going to pipe together (or use -exec, xargs, redirection) by ITSELF, to make sure you're getting the expected results, sanity check the results, and THEN using command history, bring up the same command and wrap it in backticks or add the -exec or | xargs clause to it.
Consider the following, and what would happen if BOTH were executed blindly:
find /tmp -name "jre*" -exec rm {} \;
OK, life's happy, remove all jre* files in the /tmp heirarchy.find / tmp -iname "jre.*" -exec rm {} \;
Oops, accidently put a space between / and tmp. Hope you didn't actually WANT a working Java/jre on your system!
Sane way:
find /tmp -name "jre*"
check results
If OK, then use the SAME EXACT COMMAND via shell command line editing, and just wrap or add to it:
find /tmp -name "jre*" -exec rm -f {} \;
Scott
Read the man pages for rm, find and xargs so you can understand this.
Best, -- Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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