Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 16:28:44 +0100 From: Adam Nealis <adamn@criterion.canon.co.uk> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: removing files Message-ID: <35D1B4AC.A880990F@criterion.canon.co.uk> References: <H000057c01776e2a@MHS>
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Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr wrote: > Hello, > > what about : (under csh) > > foreach i (`ls | grep -v la.txt | grep -v foo.sh`) > rm $i > end ls can complain if you have (a zillion)^zillion files in a dir, so I'd be inclined to do find . -type f -print > /tmp/bigffilelist foreach i (`grep -v la.txt /tmp/bigfilelist`) rm $i end Coz find just reads the entries in the directory file one by one, unlike ls which tries to sort the buggers. Also a bit faster because there is no sort. Adam. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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