Jerry Keene wrote:
>
> I've tried deleting, for example, all *nav_blueprnt010* files using the
> rm and find utilities and backquotes. All these files have
> embedded spaces.
>
> Using the form
> rm `find /home/httpd/html -name *nav_blueprnt010*`
>
> results in failure because the backquoted output breaks the files
> into separate parts at every space. Since the resulting filenames
> are nonsensical, the process fails with a "file not found" type error.
>
> Using the form
> rm "`find/home/httpd/html -name *nav_blueprnt010*`"
>
> generates a sensible backquoted listing with full filenames on each
> line of output. However the output concatenates all the filenames
> into one excessively long super file. The process then fails with a
> msg that the file is too long.
>
> Am I tantalizingly close here or totally on the wrong track?
Close but it may be a lot easier to break the job into pieces. Redirect
the output of the find command to a file (foundfiles.dat) and run this sed
command on it:
cat foundfiles.dat | sed -e "s/^/rm \"/" -e "s/$/\"/" > delfiles.sh
That will put an rm command and a quoted filename on each line of the
output file. Then just run the result as a shell script to delete the
files:
bash delfiles.sh
Tony
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