Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 20:31:38 -0800 From: Saint Aardvark the Carpeted <aardvark@saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com> To: Vulpes Velox <kitbsdlists@hotpop.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: file selector and shell scripts Message-ID: <20040225043138.GB23994@hardesty.saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com> In-Reply-To: <20040224161836.6a000415@vixen42> References: <20040224161836.6a000415@vixen42>
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Vulpes Velox disturbed my sleep to write:
> I am currently working on putting together a shell script to allow me
> to save files with certian extensions under firefox and then run a few
> commands on them... the problem I am running into is there I can't
> seem to find any thing to take care of the file selector part...
I think find(1) might be what you're after. It has a zillion options,
but a good example would be:
find /usr/local/lib -name \*.so -exec rm {} \;
which finds all the .so files in /usr/local/lib and removes them.
Note: Do NOT remove all your .so files. :-)
Hugh
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