Am 18.07.2011 10:48, schrieb Neil Bothwick:
> On Sun, 17 Jul 2011 18:40:44 -0700, Grant wrote:
>
>> Alright, find is tricky. Is this the right spot for -delete?
>>
>> /usr/bin/find /home/user -type f -name "*-`/bin/date -d 'yesterday'
>> +\%Y\%m\%d`*.jpg" - delete
>
> Yes, but if you don't want irreversible mistakes, move the files instead.
>
> find /home/user -type f -name blah -exec mv -t ~/.Trashcan "{}" +
>
>
In all these commands it would always be a good idea to deactivate
parameter parsing just in front of the place where the file names are
inserted.
find ... -print0 | xargs -0 mv -t ~/.Trashcan --
or
find ... -exec mv -t ~/.Trashcan -- "{}" +
The double dash will prevent mv from interpreting weird file names like
"-h" as parameters. Just about every standard GNU tool supports this.
Regards,
Florian Philipp
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