[Newark] Help with rm

[Andy Goldschmidt]

yes xargs is your friend :)

Will this work ?

find /home -type f -wholename "*foo/bar/fred.txt" -exec  rm -f {} \;

That should run forced rm on each fie returned




On Thu, 2008-12-04 at 14:25 +0000, Chris Burton wrote:

> > I seem to remember there's a switch for rm that makes this work, or is 
> > there
> > some other syntax. Any ideas?
> 
> find /home -wholename "*foo/bar/fred.txt" -print0|xargs -p0 rm
> 
> The interractive part of it isn't very friendly but still there.
> 
> ChrisB.
> p.s. there are probably better ways of doing it - as always :). 


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