From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OFnml-0000qK-RB for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 22 May 2010 12:26:35 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E4531E0767; Sat, 22 May 2010 12:26:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C7ABE0767 for ; Sat, 22 May 2010 12:26:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from zaphod.digimed.co.uk (zaphod.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id B43AD64D120 for ; Sat, 22 May 2010 13:26:00 +0100 (BST) Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 13:25:55 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] xargs and rm funkiness Message-ID: <20100522132555.028cba37@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20100522123510.3f17eef6@karnak.local> References: <20100522123510.3f17eef6@karnak.local> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.6cvs6 (GTK+ 2.18.9; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/A9TgieN5FE0Kh7Ehes6_RU2"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 5f6550c4-6f3f-49dc-b0ea-b2828f40f7bf X-Archives-Hash: b5ae0993dc57a8ea396549f91671de25 --Sig_/A9TgieN5FE0Kh7Ehes6_RU2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 22 May 2010 12:35:10 +0100, David W Noon wrote: > >find -name *.ext -exe rm "{}" + =20 >=20 > Or simpler still: >=20 > find -name *.ext -delete Neat - I hadn't noticed that option. Anyone for find / -delete ? --=20 Neil Bothwick Top Oxymorons Number 31: Small crowd --Sig_/A9TgieN5FE0Kh7Ehes6_RU2 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.15 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkv3zVgACgkQum4al0N1GQOh4ACfayHwwHJVEa5Hd88EUmJodZ7Y cGoAnjyyhpWbP3WExvQ0orlOARScPW7I =aZIw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/A9TgieN5FE0Kh7Ehes6_RU2--