Re: How to remove all files with a certain extension
On Apr 6, 2009, at 5:11 PM, Dan Nelson wrote:
In the last episode (Apr 06), John Almberg said:
This is a real newbie question, but I can't figure it out...
I want to remove all .tar files from a directory tree. I think
something
like the following should work, but I must have something wrong,
because
it doesn't:
find . -name *.tar -exec rm /dev/null {} \;
find . -name "*.tar" -delete
Make sure you quote your wildcards so the shell doesn't expand
them, and use
the -delete primary to save a fork/exec for each filename.
Fantastic. I never noticed the -delete option before. Amazing what
you can find in a man page if you know it's there :-)
Thanks: John
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Re: How to remove all files with a certain extension
In the last episode (Apr 06), John Almberg said:
> This is a real newbie question, but I can't figure it out...
>
> I want to remove all .tar files from a directory tree. I think something
> like the following should work, but I must have something wrong, because
> it doesn't:
>
> find . -name *.tar -exec rm /dev/null {} \;
find . -name "*.tar" -delete
Make sure you quote your wildcards so the shell doesn't expand them, and use
the -delete primary to save a fork/exec for each filename.
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Re: How to remove all files with a certain extension
On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 16:57 -0400, John Almberg wrote:
> This is a real newbie question, but I can't figure it out...
>
> I want to remove all .tar files from a directory tree. I think
> something like the following should work, but I must have something
> wrong, because it doesn't:
>
> find . -name *.tar -exec rm /dev/null {} \;
>
find . -type f -name "*.tar" -delete
> What am I doing wrong?
>
> Thanks: John
>
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Re: How to remove all files with a certain extension
On Mon, 6 Apr 2009 16:57:39 -0400, John Almberg wrote:
JA> This is a real newbie question, but I can't figure it out...
JA>
JA> I want to remove all .tar files from a directory tree. I think
JA> something like the following should work, but I must have something
JA> wrong, because it doesn't:
JA>
JA> find . -name *.tar -exec rm /dev/null {} \;
find . -type f -name '*.tar' -delete
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Re: How to remove all files with a certain extension
On Apr 6, 2009, at 4:57 PM, John Almberg wrote:
This is a real newbie question, but I can't figure it out...
I want to remove all .tar files from a directory tree. I think
something like the following should work, but I must have something
wrong, because it doesn't:
find . -name *.tar -exec rm /dev/null {} \;
What am I doing wrong?
Oh, duh... that /dev/null shouldn't be there.
-- John
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How to remove all files with a certain extension
This is a real newbie question, but I can't figure it out...
I want to remove all .tar files from a directory tree. I think
something like the following should work, but I must have something
wrong, because it doesn't:
find . -name *.tar -exec rm /dev/null {} \;
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks: John
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