On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 01:34:20PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote:
> --- William Ballard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Just some tips on using find:
>
> > rm -r `find /usr/local -name '*vmware* -type d`
>
> find /usr/local -name '*vmware*' -exec rm -rf {} \;
Oh lord, I've opened the can of worms. The xargs version is best of all
correct? The tradeoffs between the three are (1) my version = easiest
for me to grok (I think, it treats literals and functions the same); (2)
your version = launches 1 process per file, not a big deal in the case
of rm, and (3) xargs = only launches 1 process, the only way to go if
1000s of files will match, command must support reading args from stdin.
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