On 1/30/14, Felix C. Stegerman <f...@obfusk.org> wrote: > On 2014-01-29 10:43, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote:
>> And then: $ cd ~/bar && rm `find -name '.*'` > > Find is indeed very useful, but that's probably a bad idea. You'll > get into trouble with filenames containing spaces for example. > If you really want to use find, use something like: > > $ find -depth -name '.?*' -exec echo rm -rv -- {} \; > > Which will not match '.' because it expects at least one character > after the dot, will handle filenames correctly, Does find do the filename-with-space escaping for us with those {braces}? (I don't have access to man pages ATM sorry). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAOsGNSRx61s6E7=hu2runm3vxj8wse4yrumq1wpf5ihabe-...@mail.gmail.com