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To: David Kirchner <davidk@accretivetg.com>
Cc: Drew Tomlinson <drew@mykitchentable.net>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: How to Use Find To Remove Files?
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From: James McNaughton <jtm63@enteract.com>
Date: 29 Dec 2001 11:17:40 -0600
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David Kirchner <davidk@accretivetg.com> writes:


> On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Drew Tomlinson wrote:
> 
> > Now what I want to do is remove those files so I've tried (find . -name
> > "CVS" -ok "rm {}";) and various versions of the command but can't get
> > the syntax right.  How should I construct this command?
> 
> find . -name "CVS" -delete
> 
> works on FreeBSD's find.
> 

But if he wants confirmation with the -ok primary then

find . -name CVS -ok rm \{\} \;

is the one to use.

The original problem is that the final ; is a special character for
the shell and must be escaped by prepending it with a "\".

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